This month’s Book Club read is ‘The Silent Patient’ by Alex Michaelides.   Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect until one evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and she shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. 
 
Alicia’s refusal to talk turns a domestic tragedy into 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 a secure forensic unit in North London. 
 
Criminal psychotherapist Theo Faber has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to reveal 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.... 

The books picked to read for each month are selected by a voting system twice a year.  

Members are asked to give their suggestion and the group will vote, winners will be informed in a Teams Meeting.  

Members will receive a hard, Kindle or Google Play copy of the Book.  

The books picked to read for each month are selected by a voting system twice a year.

Members are asked to give their suggestion and the group will vote, winners will be informed in a Teams Meeting. Members will receive a hard, Kindle or Google Play copy of the Book.

(Please note: This online activity is only open to those over the age of 18yrs. Children under the age of 18yrs should not be present with the Adult when attending this activity.)

Full details of how to join the Book Club can be found on our Member Events and Activities Calendar - National Book Club - 19th October

(You will need to request to join the Member Events and Activities group if you have not already done so.)