Book Club : The Silent Patient

Hey Everyone,

Apologies we didn’t have a meet up in September, it was a hectic month for me.

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

This will be our next book club meet up, I’ve heard lots of good things about The Silent Patient!

This will be at Lord Lyon again, a very cute and cozy wine bar in the CBD. Due to waitlists for the previous event, please only RSVP if you are committed to coming.

Going forward any no shows will be removed from the group to make sure those who’d really like to attend get the chance to.

We’ll nominate a book at the next event, so if there’s any suggestions please feel free to share. Hope to see you soon!

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.

Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. 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. 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.

Alicia’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. 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.

Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. 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....