Problems in Paradiseīack in the present, Theo asks Lazarus Diomedes to reduce Alicia’s medication so that he is able to talk to her Diomedes agrees. Many years later, in this diary entry, she still wonders if she had been the real target. It chronicles the day when Alicia’s mother, Eva Rose, slammed a car into a wall, thus quite brutally ending her life.
Diary Entry #2ĭespite Alicia’s promise, this one is definitely not normal in fact, it is disturbing as hell! Speaking of family – we learn soon after that Theo is married to a woman named Kathy.Īnd he loves her very, very much. Theo tries to look for answers elsewhere: he contacts Alicia’s brother-in-law Max, and her aunt Lydia to no avail: they refuse to speak to him as well we guess it runs in the family. However – and as expected – their first therapy session is a failure: Alicia is heavily medicated, and so, she is not even able to understand Theo, let alone engage in a meaningful conversation. So, he goes to the Grove, a mental asylum where, thanks to its head, Lazarus Diomedes, who advocated it as a better place for her than prison, Alicia Berenson is located at the present moment. (Unlike Theo, the dumbfounded readers know immediately that this happened around the time Alicia wrote the diary entry above).Īpparently, after shooting her husband five times in the face, Alicia was found by the police with a gun in her hand, trying to commit suicide.įrom then on, she stopped talking, never saying a word to anyone the only thing of any note she managed to produce in the meantime was a single painting, a naked self-portrait enigmatically titled Alcestis.ĭespite the numerous attempts of the media to find out Alicia’s motive, this is basically everything anyone knows about the night of the murder.ĭue to his abusive childhood and the fact that he was saved from insanity by his therapist ( Ruth), Theo firmly believes that he can save Alicia. Six years later, Theo Faber, a forensic psychotherapist with a history of addiction and an abusive childhood, informs us that, for reasons unknown, Alicia Berenson murdered Gabriel six years before the present day.
In it, Alicia Berenson expresses her love for her husband Gabriel, implying that this diary exists, in a way, precisely because of it: it is not merely Alicia’s outlet but also her means of figuring out her emotions by herself so that she doesn’t hurt Gabriel.Īlicia promises that she intends to write only normal things in her diary. However, it is also interspersed with pages taken out of Alicia Berenson’s diary, a famous painter, the woman Theo is trying to help.Įven though it can be argued that it doesn’t do that much justice to this complexly plotted yet finely narrated and easily readable novel, we’ll try to stick to this structure in our summary as well. Finn, Alex Michaelides’ debut soon-to-be-a-blockbuster-movie novel, The Silent Patient – is mainly narrated from the first-person perspective of Theo Faber, forensic psychotherapist.
Plotĭescribed as “the perfect thriller” by none other than A.
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His first novel, The Silent Patient, has received rave reviews and will be adapted into a movie by Brad Pitt’s production company, Plan B.
Alex Michaelides is an American writer and screenwriter.īorn to a Greek-Cypriot father and English mother in Cyprus in 1977, Michaelides earned an MA in English literature from Cambridge University and an MFA in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.Īfter authoring the screenplays of two widely panned movies – The Devil You Know and The Brits Are Coming – Michaelides turned to writing.
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