Ratings1,226
Average rating3.8
As someone who studied art and psychology, this story of a psychotherapist working with a selectively mute artist at an in-patient psychiatric facility was right up my alley! I was so invested in figuring out what really happened the night Alicia shot her husband that I would end up reading 100 pages when I only intended to read 30.
I really loved how The Silent Patient is just as much—if not more—about Theo, Alicia's psychotherapist, and his own personal childhood trauma, marriage, and deter