The Silent Patient

Double infidelity isn’t the most attractive or auspicious start to a relationship, particularly as we were introduced to each other by our then partners.

Yuri gave me an odd smile. “Let me give you some advice. Go home to your wife. Go home to Kathy, who loves you.… And leave Alicia behind.”

Diomedes was fond of saying

Diomedes was fond of saying

Somehow grasping at vanishing snowflakes is like grasping at happiness: an act of possession that instantly gives way to nothing.

The painting was a self-portrait. She titled it in the bottom left-hand corner of the canvas, in light blue Greek lettering.

One word:

Alcestis.

Barbie phoned the police, and a car was dispatched from the station on Haverstock Hill at 11:35 p.m. It arrived at the Berensons’ house in just under three minutes.

In the end, Gabriel’s shoot ran late, and he wasn’t driven home until eleven p.m.

A car collected him at 5:15 a.m. from the house he shared with Alicia in northwest London, on the edge of Hampstead Heath, and he was driven to a shoot in Shoreditch.

Once you name something, it stops you seeing the whole of it, or why it matters.