The Silent Patient By Alex Michaelides Poetry games and a festive generosity

games and a festive generosity of spirit

Summoned to Evelyn

and confront her lingering feelings for Cardan

Will and Layken form an intense emotional connection

Though the least typical of the author’s novels

The Silent Patient By Alex Michaelides Poetry games and a festive generosity"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