Silent patient by Alex Michaelides Book Review

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Published in 2019, The Silent Patient is a psychological thriller novel. Upon its release, the book was listed at no 1 in Newyork times bestseller list. So, Alex Michaelides, a student of English at Cambridge University and screenwriting from American film institute is a British-Cypriot author and a screenwriter. His debut novel Silent Patient has been sold in thirty-nine territories worldwide. On his writing, the novel the author commented that he was disillusioned as a screenwriter as he kept seeing script being mangled at production. So out of frustration, he started writing this novel and before finalizing the final draft he wrote it almost 50 times.


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