The Silent Patient is the very definition of a page-turner. There are little twists at every turn and some interesting questions come up during the course of events happening in the novel. There are many layers to the story which I found interesting.
This is a contemporary story steeped in a deliciously gothic tone. The Silent Patient is a taut, fast-paced thriller with an intriguing story-line. In the meantime, and just in time for the holidays, we have this offering from one of our most patient chroniclers. THE SILENT PATIENT is a deep, dark tale of murder, love and revenge. Author Amanda Posted on JCategories Authentic Self, Non-Fiction, Writing Tags Blog, Blogging, Micro Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction, Silence, Writing Confessions (Part 17) My last post may leave some of you wondering why I even have this blog public. military text mentions a primitive form of football." While succinctly conveying the mood and stakes of this unprecedented display of mutual trust during war, Weintraub's short book could help draw Malcolm Brown and Shirley Seaton's magisterial Christmas Truce back into print. The genre of this book is Novel, mystery, thriller, suspense, psychological thriller. Drawing from secondary sources as well as much archival research in a variety of languages, Weintraub has compiled a brief, anecdotal account that reveals his skill as a researcher and deftness as a narrator in chapters like "An Outbreak of Peace," "Our Friends, the Enemy" and "How It Ended." There are lively anecdotes, contemporary doggerel and some extraneous asides-such as that "a Chinese fourth century B.C. The total page count of the silent patient is 336. Popular historian Weintraub ( MacArthur's War, etc.), emeritus professor of arts and humanities at Penn State, tackles a sober subject from WWI, when amid the millions of casualties in the obscene carnage of trench war, a mutual agreement arose for a cease-fire at Christmastime of the first year of conflict. I read this in one sitting on the beach today.