Book Review: The Silent Patient by Alex Michealides
Five fatal gunshots. Six years of Silence. What were her first words... After years of communicating with images and thinking through pictures, Alicia Berenson unable to house the feeling of depression any longer, took to inking down her thoughts and emotions on the thick white pages of the black diary given to her by her husband, Gabriel Berenson. She had it all- the love, the care, the concern, the attention, she had it all thanks to Gabriel. Everything she needed to feel welcomed and appreciated but still... There was more to it. Alicia a painter and her husband a well known fashion photographer who took to shooting semi-starved, semi-naked women in strange unflattering corners. They both worked together to build their marriage and career but actually, she was loosing her marriage. ... Her lips pale, bloodless, they fluttered occasionally but formed no words, made no sounds. She answered no questions, she could not and would not speak. Nor did she speak when charged...