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Graeme Macrae Burnet - Case Study (2nd Hand Hardback)
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Synopsis
Longlisted for The Booker Prize 2022.
Shortlisted for The Gordon Burn 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 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.
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- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Hardback with Dust Jacket
- Condition : Very Good
- Category : Fiction - Fiction - Uncategorised
- Published : 2021 (Saraband - 1st Edition, 1st Printing)
- ISBN : 9781913393199
- SKU : B003377
- PPC : SP500gm
- RRP : £14.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
'A page-turning blast.' - The Times.
‘Genuinely affecting . . . a very funny book.' - The Guardian.
'Burstingly alive and engaging.' - The Telegraph.
‘It’s a book that is enormous fun to read, a mystery and a psychological drama wrapped up in one . . . magnificent - Case Study is a triumph.’ - Alex Preston, Guardian.
"A novel of mind-bending brilliance. Graeme Macrae Burnet is . . . at the height of his powers." - Hannah Kent.
"A masterclass of diversion . . . blurring the lines of fiction and reality . . . serious and witty at once . . . an enthralling read." - The Skinny.
The Author
Graeme Macrae Burnet is among Scotland's leading contemporary novelists. He lives and works in Glasgow, where he studied English literature, before studying further at the University of St Andrews and then working in television and teaching overseas. In 2013 he was awarded a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award, and he now writes full-time. Best known for his dazzling Booker-shortlisted second novel, His Bloody Project (2015), he is also the author of two novels set in France and written in a style influenced by the Belgian novelist Georges Simenon: The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau (2014) and The Accident on the A35 (2017). His fourth novel, Case Study (2021), consists of a series of notebooks apparently sent to the author in 2020 to aid his research into a rogue 1960s psychotherapist. The notebooks reveal the story of a young woman convinced that this charismatic therapist was responsible for her sister’s suicide. Determined to get to the bottom of his role in her sister’s death, she assumes an alter ego and presents herself as a client to him. Graeme has appeared at literary festivals in Australia, the USA, Germany, India, Russia, Spain, France, Korea, Denmark and Estonia. His novels have been translated into more than 20 languages and achieved bestseller status in several countries.