The Silent Patient, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 20 relations: Agatha Christie, Alcestis (play), Alex Michaelides, Classical Athens, Debut novel, Deccan Herald, Elective mutism, Euripides, First-person narrative, Jack Hawkins (actor, born 1985), Kirkus Reviews, Louise Brealey, Macmillan Publishers, Psychological thriller, Red herring, Setting (narrative), The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Times Best Seller list, The Washington Post.

2. 2019 British novels

Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

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Alcestis (play)

Alcestis (Ἄλκηστις, Alkēstis) is an Athenian tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides.

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Alex Michaelides

Alex Michaelides (born 1977) is a bestselling British Cypriot author and screenwriter.

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Classical Athens

The city of Athens (Ἀθῆναι, Athênai a.tʰɛ̂ː.nai̯; Modern Greek: Αθήναι, Athine or, more commonly and in singular, Αθήνα, Athina) during the classical period of ancient Greece (480–323 BC) was the major urban centre of the notable polis (city-state) of the same name, located in Attica, Greece, leading the Delian League in the Peloponnesian War against Sparta and the Peloponnesian League.

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Debut novel

A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes.

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Deccan Herald

Deccan Herald is an Indian English language daily newspaper published from the Indian state of Karnataka.

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Elective mutism

Elective mutism is an outdated term which was defined as a refusal to speak in almost all social situations (despite normal ability to do so), while selective mutism was considered to be a failure to speak in specific situations and is strongly associated with social anxiety disorder.

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Euripides

Euripides was a tragedian of classical Athens.

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First-person narrative

A first-person narrative (also known as a first-person perspective, voice, point of view, etc.) is a mode of storytelling in which a storyteller recounts events from that storyteller's own personal point of view, using first-person grammar such as "I", "me", "my", and "myself" (also, in plural form, "we", "us", etc.).

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Jack Hawkins (actor, born 1985)

Jack Hawkins (born 6 October 1985) is an English actor, known for his work on the BBC One series Call the Midwife and the HBO Max series Raised by Wolves.

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Kirkus Reviews

Kirkus Reviews is an American book review magazine founded in 1933 by Virginia Kirkus.

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Louise Brealey

Louise Brealey, also credited as Loo Brealey, is an English actress, writer and journalist.

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Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd in the UK and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC in the US) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publishers (along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster). The Silent Patient and Macmillan Publishers are Macmillan Publishers books.

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Psychological thriller

Psychological thriller is a genre combining the thriller and psychological fiction genres.

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Red herring

A red herring is something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important question.

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Setting (narrative)

A setting (or backdrop) is the time and geographic location within a narrative, either non-fiction or fiction.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The New York Times Best Seller list

The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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See also

2019 British novels

• A Capitol Death
• A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
• A Thousand Ships
• Agent Running in the Field
• All That's Dead
• Big Sky (novel)
• Bird Summons
• Blood Orange (novel)
• Blue Moon (Child novel)
• Children of Ruin
• Deeplight
• Domino Island
• Ducks, Newburyport
• Frankissstein
• Gingerbread (Oyeyemi novel)
• Girl, Woman, Other
• Golden Child (novel)
• Greenhollow Duology
• Hunger for Life
• Lanny (novel)
• Lent (novel)
• Lost Property (Beatty novel)
• Luna: Moon Rising
• Machines Like Me
• Mistletoe (novel)
• Queenie (novel)
• Quichotte (novel)
• Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon
• Spring (novel)
• Sweet Sorrow (novel)
• Sword of Kings
• That Reminds Me (novel)
• The Beekeeper of Aleppo
• The Carer (novel)
• The Chain (novel)
• The Cockroach (novella)
• The Giver of Stars
• The Merchant Princes
• The Mister
• The Porpoise
• The Scent of Death
• The Secret Commonwealth
• The Sentence Is Death
• The Silent Patient
• The Strawberry Thief
• The Survival of Molly Southbourne

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silent_Patient