Paperback - the Silent Patient

Alicia Berenson seems to have a perfect life. She is a celebrated painter married to a successful fashion photographer, and they live in a handsome house with tall windows that look onto a park in a sought-after part of London. One night her husband returns late from a shoot, and Alicia shoots him and then falls silent, refusing to say a word about why. Her silence turns a private tragedy into a public mystery, pushing up the value of her paintings and making her notorious. She is moved to a secure forensic unit in north London, away from the press. Theo Faber, a criminal psychotherapist, has long hoped for the chance to treat her. He is determined to make her speak and uncover what drove her to act, but the search for the truth leads him into his own hidden motives.