In this episode of Books and Boards, Kayla and Rachel cover The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides. They discuss the disturbing events that unfold in this story, and Rachel gets to gush on all things art therapy! In the next episode, they'll be covering another spellbinding mystery, The Au Pair by Emma Rous. BOOK CLUB QUESTIONS: What would it be like to be silent for that long? Do you think you would survive without communicating with others for so long? What did you think about a professional psychotherapist quitting their job and starting a new one specifically to see a patient? Did that feel like appropriate behavior? Do you think people study psychology or enter helping professions to heal themselves? How did you feel hearing from Alicia through her diary and from others, but not from her directly even though she’s a main character? Many people were confident that Alicia was guilty, but Barbie, her neighbor, was just as confident that she wasn’t guilty. Did you think that Alicia was guilty throughout the book? Did you have any other suspects? FOLLOW THE AUTHOR: @alex.michaelides

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