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The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides horror The Invention of Sound isAlicia 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