Life of Алисии Беренсон seems ideal. The known artist married for the highly sought fashionable photographer. She lives in one of the most attractive and expensive districts of London, in a luxurious house with large windows going out in a park. Once by a late evening, when her husband Gabriel returns home from a next survey, Алисия five times shoots to him in a person. And since pronounces not a word.Refuse of Алисии to talk or give some explanations are agitated by public imagination. A secret does an artist famous. And while she is on a force treatment, cost of her last work - self-portrait with only inscription in Greece "ALCESTIS" - grows headily.Тео Faber is a criminal psychotherapist. He waited possibility to do some work with Алисией, compel her to talk long. But what hides after his obsession reckless мужеубийцей and will all these psychological experiments result in what? Maybe, to truth that threatens to take in and it.Alex wrote the "Silent patient" while tumbler Pigeon worked on the scenario of film "Swindlers willy-nilly" with Умой and by Tim Ротом in leading roles. Exactly Ума tumbler Pigeon Михаэлидесу offered to do a main heroine - Алисию - by an artist. This idea was a writer liked: in fact heroine of his favourite novel "Cat's-eye" of Margaret Этвуд also was an artist. As soon as he presented Алисию exactly in this profession, she "came" back to life at once.Алекс confesses that process of writing of the "Silent patient" in loneliness in a cafe or in an apartment was the happiest in his creative life. "Simply prosecution of suggestion, moving of words, search of correct synonym is all does me very happy", - a writer talks.Rights on screen version belong to the producer company of Брэда Питта Plan B Entertainment, and Алекс marks that again пересоберет this history in a scenario."Same unexpected and staggering imagination finale in latter days"! - Блейк Crouch."Clever, difficult and tense narration", - Ли Чайлд."This sharp and clever novel literally staggered me - and I assure you, it it is very unsimple to do. Gratitude to the author. Special gratitude". - Джоанн Харрис, author of novel is "Chocolate".