具体描述
Promising to be the debut novel of the season The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive…
Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word.
Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London.
Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....
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##是那种一开始读就停不下来的故事。期待电影。
评分##Love that doesn't include honesty doesn't deserve to be called love...
评分##3星半吧。故事还可以，有psychological thriller共通的优势（情节抓人，读起来放不下）和缺点（后劲小/值得回味的地方少，甚至越回味越不对劲），人物就差一些。如果读一本书只是为了那一个twist，无论读的时候猜不猜得到，我好像都不太喜欢。
评分##BOTM拿到的先发版，一个周末就读完了。psychological thriller读得不多，这本给我了一种第一次读and then there were none的感觉。有些地方还是会很强烈的感受到是作者写的第一本小说，但是整体真的是很赞
评分##是那种一开始读就停不下来的故事。期待电影。
评分##a story about double infidelity; 精神治疗师与患者，童年创伤与成年行为，凶手与被害人，背叛者与被背叛者，日记视角与第一人称非正常时间线叙述
评分近几年看过叙述最棒的故事之一 读完很想找人讲话 又感觉像题目里的女主角一样哑口无言 跟“gone girl”大卖之后成堆出现的俗套“心理悬疑/人格分裂”类妖艳贱货很不一样 this debut novel is fresh, bone-chilling, meticulous, and disturbingly good. 每一章都很短 你会一直跟自己说just one more chapter然后完全放不下来 到后半部分你觉得在震惊里经历了“ah ha”moment之后 结尾还有更强大的反转等着你 整个叙事和句式风格明明都很easy 但读完让你感觉deeply uneasy 推荐给想读个好故事、但不介意情感上有几天包袱的人
评分##2019年goodreads犯罪悬疑类小说第一名，好像还是作者的处女作。故事吗，悬疑类我看的不多，我觉得还行，最后掀锅盖。 故事主要靠第一人称心理活动推进，辅之女主的日记，大量的对话，所以语言比较简单，适合英语学习。 有一些简单的心理学单词和概念，勉强可以算知识点。
评分##别上当，根本不是perfect thriller 最近炒的很热。得闲看完，完全没有反转和惊悚的感觉…心理描写太冗余拖沓了，以至于过程中猜测了一百种结局，总有一个碰对的
