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seize the book! What a great thought.
Welcome book lovers
saturday scoop features a "scoop" on books- whether it's my review or other book related news you may have missed.
This book just came out Tuesday.
I was so lucky that an ARC found its way into my paws!
Set time aside once you start it because once it hooks you...
I'd also like to say that I can see why this book was gobbled up by Hollywood for movie rights. Although I pretty much disagree with turning books into movies, The Silent Patient has that appeal to it in tone, pacing and characterization. However, I do think a time or two the time lines/frames got off track but that's okay- it did not lessen my enjoyment of the book.
I'm a sucker for any book that claims to have a twist you'll never see coming etc and I'll admit I did figure out one of them (yes, I think there are two here at play).
I do highly recommend this novel.
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....
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