6/20/2023 0 Comments The silent patient back of book![]() It’s a lifetime of being made to think that she wasn’t worthy, she wasn’t good enough, and maybe that’s something that a lot of women have been responding to.” Like Alcestis, Alicia is trapped and she’s denied a voice. “And it was very clear in my head when I was writing the book that Alicia was surrounded by these men who were imprisoning her. “It’s about silence as a weapon,” Michaelides says. With its story of female sacrifice and the silencing of a woman post-trauma, it feels highly relevant in a post #MeToo world. ![]() The Alcestis theme is perhaps one of the reasons that The Silent Patient is finding such traction both among early readers and the tranche of movie executives who fought to option it. Running through the novel is the Greek myth of Alcestis, and Euripides’s play of the same name. ![]() “Therapy is very important to me and has been a major part of my life,” he says. The therapeutic setting was inspired by Michaelides’s own experience. ![]() ![]() The Silent Patient is narrated by Theo Faber, a psychotherapist determined to discover why Alicia Berenson, a famous artist accused of murdering her husband, has refused to speak since her husband’s death. Meet the hottest-tipped debut novelists of 2019 ![]()
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