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Book SynopsisLONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 GORDON BURN PRIZE
'A page-turning blast.' Times
'Genuinely affecting … a very funny book.' Guardian
'Burstingly alive and engaging.' Telegraph
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED HIS BLOODY PROJECT.
'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 suspects charismatic psychotherapist Collins Braithwaite of involvement in a death in her family. Determined to find out more, she becomes a client of his under a false identity. But she soon finds herself drawn into a world in which she can no longer be certain of anything.
In Case Study, Graeme Macrae Burnet presents both sides: the woman’s notes and the life of Collins Braithwaite. The result is a dazzling, page-turning and wickedly humorous meditation on the nature of sanity, identity and truth itself, by one of the most inventive novelists writing today.
Trade Review'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 *
“Undoubtedly one of the best books of the year.”
-- Alistair Braidwood * Scots Whay Hae *
'A masterclass of diversion … blurring the lines of fiction and reality … serious and witty at once … an enthralling read.'
-- Heather McDaid * The Skinny *
'A novel of mind-bending brilliance. Graeme Macrae Burnet is a master of muddying the waters, of troubling ideas of truth and identity, fiction and documentary, and Case Study shows him at the height of his powers'
* Hannah Kent *
