But that’s not the case with The Silent Patient. Some novels, despite having good story lines, have lost that element of intrigue due to badly written characters. It sounds simple, but as a reader, I am sure you know how important good characterisation is to a novel.
Though The Silent Patient is a contemporary novel it has layers of Gothic undertones. It’s a compelling tale of love, loss and revenge. The characters and the plot are unpredictable and you won’t see the twists coming. That’s what makes this a good psychological thriller. The Silent Patient is the very definition of a page-turner. There are little twists at every turn and some interesting questions come up during the course of events happening in the novel. There are many layers to the story which I found interesting. The Silent Patient is a taut, fast-paced thriller with an intriguing story-line. But the truth is not so easy and threatens to consume them both. He is obsessed with her case and wants to help her desperately, Theo is determined to get Alicia talking and unravel the mystery surrounding the murder. Here Alicia comes across Theo Faber, a psychotherapist who has waited a long time to treat Alicia. Meanwhile, the silent Alicia is remanded to a secure mental institution called The Grove. The price of Alicia’s paintings sky rocket and people gather in her friend’s art gallery to view the painting she made just after the murder. It becomes a mystery which catches the public eye and casts her into notoriety. She has been silent for over six years now.Īlicia’s silence gives this domestic tragedy a deeper, mysterious meaning. One day Gabriel comes home, late from a shoot, and Alicia shoots him at point-blank range and never speaks a single world again. She is married to Gabriel, a famous fashion photographer.
She is a gifted painter and her life seems to be perfect. The Silent Patient in this thriller is Alicia Berenson. I thought ‘why not’? I’ll tell you why not! The Silent Patient is a novel you won’t forget so easily, an absolute page-turner which will keep you at the edge of your seat. I saw it in the ‘new releases’ section in Amazon and I was intrigued by the blurb. I just cannot find the right words to describe this thriller. It took me a week to write this book review. I am stunned after reading The Silent Patient. Mental illness is precisely about a lack of this kind of integration – we end up losing contact with the unacceptable parts of ourselves.” “We are made up of different parts, some good, some bad, and a healthy mind can tolerate this ambivalence and juggle both good and bad at the same time.
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