The Silent Patient Art I’d abandoned my dreams of

I’d abandoned my dreams of making it big in New York

with all his distorted needs

from the palace of the Persian Empire to the US Senate

but that never wanted her

The Silent Patient Art I’d abandoned my dreams ofAlicia Berensons 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 Londons 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. Alicias refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into