The Silent Patient was released in February 2019 and has been on the bestseller charts ever since. The result was a huge bidding war for his debut novel, The Silent Patient. At that point, Michaelides finally decided to try his hand at a novel. Michaelides previously wrote the screenplays for The Devil You Know (2013) and The Con is On (2018), though they were not particularly well-received projects. See the full summary and review of The Silent Patient on The Bibliofile. Theo Faber is a psychologist who takes on the her case to understand what happened that night and why she is unable or unwilling to speak. In the years after the shooting, Alicia paints only one painting, which is a self portrait entitled “Alcestis,” named after a Greek heroine who returns from the dead, but never speaks again.
In The Silent Patient, a well known artist, Alicia Berenson, has been in a psychiatric hospital for years after she shoots her husband and has not spoken a word since. The Silent Patient is a twisty and exciting mystery-thriller by former screenwriter Alex Michaelides. Here’s what we know about this mystery novel’s jump to film so far: What’s it about? What’s the plot? The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides, a psychological thriller released in February 2019, has a movie adaptation in the works. By Jennifer Marie Lin on Jul 30th, 2019 (Last Updated Jun 29th, 2021)
