
Stood with a smoking gun and blood on her hands, she was arrested, found guilty and sent to The Grove, a secure psychiatric hospital in London. Then, one day, she waited for her husband to return home where she shot him in the head five times. The seemingly happy, contented artist had everything. Will it live up to what I’ve heard? Will I see the big twist coming and will that dampen the whole reading experience for me? Read on to find out…Īlicia Berenson is a household name for all the wrong reasons. I’ll be honest, I was a bit dubious before making a start on this one. I’m sure that’s not actually the case but, you know how it is sometimes (back to those #bookwormproblems I often mention). And with all hugely hyped, extremely popular novels, I feel like I’m one of the last people to read it. The Silent Patient was published by Orion Books on 12th December 2019 and is available in all formats. Today I am delighted to be sharing my sixteenth 20 Books of Summer review with you, which is for The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides. Hello and a very warm welcome to damppebbles. Since then she hasn’t spoken a single word. When she shot her husband in the head five times. “Alicia Berenson lived a seemingly perfect life until one day six years ago.
