Dans son silence

Alicia, a young British painter in vogue, lives in a beautiful house near London with Gabriel, a fashion photographer. When she is found at home, hagard and covered with blood in front of her defiant husband's corpse, the press simmers. Alicia immediately stops saying no word, even in court. She is considered mentally irresponsible and sent to a psychiatric clinic.Six years later, Dr. Theo Faber, an ambitious psychiatrist, has only one obsession: to have Alicia retaliate. When a post is released in the clinic where she is interned, he manages to get her hired and starts a series of icy face-to-faces with her in the hope of extracting a word from her. As he begins to lose hope, Alicia suddenly sssanimates. But his reaction is all but what he expected...This dreadful mixture of suspense and psychoanalysis offers us a clever combination that has already caught many readers. The book has been sold to a million d