Longlisted for The Booker Prize 2022
"I have decided to write down everything that happens,because I feel,I suppose,I may be putting myself in danger."
London,1965. An unworldly young woman believes that a charismatic psychotherapist,Collins Braithwaite,has driven her sister to suicide. Intent on confirming her suspicions,she assumes a false identity and presents herself to him as a client,recording her experiences in a series of notebooks. But she soon finds herself drawn into a world in which she can no longer be certain of anything. Even her own character.
In Case Study,Graeme Macrae Burnet presents these notebooks interspersed with his own biographical research into Collins Braithwaite. The result is a dazzling - and often wickedly humorous - meditation on the nature of sanity,identity and truth itself,by one of the most inventive novelists writing today.
Publisher: SarabandISBN: 9781913393441Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Enormous fun...a mystery and a psychological drama wrapped up in one. Case Study is a triumph.'- Alex Preston,Observer
'Brilliant,bamboozling... Burnet captures his characters'voices so brilliantly that what might have been just an intellectual game feels burstingly alive and engaging.'- Jake Kerridge,Telegraph
'Sinister and cleverly done...punctures the myth-making of the period.'- Anthony Cummins,Daily Mail
'What's real and what's not is beside the point in this skilful portrait of a disturbed woman and her encounters with an experimental 1960s psychotherapist... Both strands quickly become compelling... I was hooked like a fish.'- Leyla Sanai,Spectator
'A thrilling investigation into the nature of sanity and identity'- Alice O'Keefe,Bookseller
'Poses questions about the nature of the self and the authenticity of identity... fine comic passages... shed(s) light on the dark places of the mind... He is an uncommonly interesting and satisfying novelist.'- Allan Massie,Scotsman
Graeme Macrae Burnet
The master of smart,darkly humorous psychological suspense,Graeme Macrae Burnet is an award-winning Scottish novelist,best known for his 2016 Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel His Bloody Project.
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