How does Michaelides use Alicia's physical appearance and artwork to reveal her character?Ħ. The author has created his own challenge: he must gradually reveal Alice to readers (and to Theo) without allowing her to tell her own story. Follow-up to Questions 2 and 3: Do you begin to see Alicia as a mythic character, a parallel to Alcestis? If so, in what way?ĥ. I saw how the world of psychotherapy might be the perfect modern setting to reimagine story and explore its themes of death, guilt and silence.Ĥ. What does Michaelides mean when, in 2018, he said in an interview with the Bookseller… Follow-up to Question 2: The author once took a post-grad course in psychotherapy and subsequently spent a couple of years working part-time in a psychiatric unit like the Grove.
What, in other words, does the painting reveal about the painter?ģ. Do a bit of research into the myth to find out what Alicia might have been saying about herself in her portrait. Alicia's self-portrait is entitled Alcestis, based an ancient Greek Eurpidean tragedy, which in turn is based upon Greek mythology. How would you describe Alicia Berenson and the life she has lead up to the time she kills her husband? What was your initial sense of why Alicia refused to speak?Ģ. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations-a search for the truth that threatens to consume him.ġ. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word.Īlicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband-and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive.Īlicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect.
A mix of Hitchcockian suspense, Agatha Christie plotting, and Greek tragedy." "An unforgettable-and Hollywood-bound-new thriller.
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