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BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2019


Dear FictionAddicts,

Cheers to the new month, it’s A-U-G-U-S-T!!! Happy new month folks. July was a good month in more ways than one and I’m sure you all had fun with last month’s books of the month.

Let’s get to the business for the day. This month we’ll read  Give Me Your Hand by Megan E. Abbot and The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides


Give Me Your Hand by Megan E. Abbot

A life-changing secret destroys an unlikely friendship in the magnetic psychological thriller. Kit Owens harbored only modest ambitions for herself when the mysterious Diane Fleming appeared in her high school chemistry class. But Diane’s academic brilliance lit a fire in Kit, and the two developed an unlikely friendship. Until Diane shared a secret that changed everything between them. More than a decade later, Kit thinks she’s put Diane behind her forever and she’s begun to fulfill the scientific dreams Diane awakened in her. But the past comes roaring back when she discovers that Diane is her competition for a position both women covet, taking part in groundbreaking new research led by their idol. Soon enough, the two former friends find themselves locked in a dangerous game of cat and mouse that threatens to destroy them both.

You can download a copy of Give Me Your Hand HERE



The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter, married to an in-
demand photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s 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.
Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London.
Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations- a search for the truth that threatens to consume him

*Alex Michaelides is part Greek and part English with a MA in English Literature from Cambridge University and MFA in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. The Silent Patient (2019) is his first novel and has been dubbed the best debut novel of 2019.

You can download a copy of  The Silent Patient HERE

That’s it people. Grab what ever drink works for you while reading and get to it.
See y’all in Sweet September!

Love,
FictionAddict.


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