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The Silent Patient
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October 1, 2020
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October 31, 2020
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Radhika
Mar 11, 2019 rated it really liked it
Alicia Berenson and Gabriel seemed to have a perfect life. She a famous upcoming painter and Gabriel and well renowed photographer. Everything looks so perfect until Gabriel is killed and Alicia holds the smoking gun which was used to shoot him five times on his face

Then Alicia becomes silent and is not able to explain herself. She is sentenced to a psychiatric ward away from the public eye and she still remains silent which makes the case widely popular with speculation and shoots Alicia to not
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Gwen
Dec 16, 2020 rated it liked it
An interesting thriller with a twist that I did not see coming. (No spoilers here) There are essentially two main characters: Theo Faber, a psychotherapist, and Alicia Berenson, an artist in a mental institution for killing her husband. Theo has in interest in Alicia, who has been completely silent for the 6 years following the murder of her husband, and begins therapy with her. Alicia's story is told completely through her diary entries - her only voice through almost all of the novel.

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Cathy
Jul 01, 2019 rated it it was amazing
Great book! Many twists and I didn’t expect the ending!
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