I love that feeling of reaching the end of a book and suddenly realizing you’ve been viewing the whole thing the wrong way up. I think the way Henry James shifts the POV in Portrait of Lady so you realize you’ve been looking at the triangular relationship in the wrong way is very close to what Agatha Christie does in Five Little Pigs or Death on the Nile. Read more: Behind The Silent Patient’s Stunning Cover DesignĪnd there’s a great tradition of psychological suspense in British literature. I’ve been doing research about all the horrible things that went on. It’s a little Grand Guignol, a little gruesome.
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It’s about a series of murders at a Cambridge college. My next book also has a lot of Greek tragedy in it.
There was something about this woman returning from death and never speaking again. The Alcestis was a play that captivated me since I was a child. I think they’re really close to Tennessee Williams in lots of ways. I’ve always been fascinated with Euripides and the tragic heroines he has. At age 13, you’re being taught The Iliad and The Odyssey, and the plays are always being staged. So you grow up with an awareness of the Greek myths. How did the myths influence your writing?Ĭyprus, where I grew up, is a very ancient country.
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The Silent Patient is full of references to Greek myths and tragedies, especially the Euripides play Alcestis. That was definitely playing in my mind when I wrote the novel–that ambivalence. So I sort of fell out of love with psychotherapy, even though it had helped me a great deal. Despite meeting some really incredible people–at this unit, particularly–I did also encounter, while I was studying, lots of people who were supposedly very eminent, who were lacking in anything I recognized as empathy. But it was also more complicated than that. I ultimately left because I was reaching a point in my studies where I was about to take on long-term patients, and I felt I was really a writer not a therapist. I didn’t have the idea then for writing a novel about it, but I knew it was a formative, life-changing experience. And then my sister is a psychiatrist and she got me a part-time job at a secure unit for teenagers, which was an incredible experience.
I had a lot of individual therapy for a long time, and then I became interested in studying it. In my case it certainly started like that. It’s a bit like Theo, the narrator in the book, says: He was drawn to mental health to heal himself. You did post-graduate work in psychology and worked in a secure psychiatric unit for two years. Author Alex Michaelides discusses his background in psychology, his literary influences, and how his screenwriting background helped him to write the perfect thriller. With film rights snapped up by the Oscar-winning producers behind The Departed, Moonlight, and 12 Years a Slave and foreign rights sold in 35 territories and counting, The Silent Patient is the most anticipated suspense novel of 2019. Forensic psychotherapist Theo Faber sets out to unravel the mystery of Alicia’s notorious crime and quickly discovers that nothing about her case is as clear-cut as it seems. The Silent Patient is the gripping tale of Alicia Berenson, a happily married artist who murders her husband and never speaks again.
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