Case Study

"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.

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2022

About the Author

Graeme Macrae Burnet is among Scotland's leading contemporary novelists. He lives and works in Glasgow. His novels have been translated into more than 20 languages and achieved bestseller status in several countries. 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. 

Reviews

"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

Dimensions: 14.9 x 3.1 x 22.4 cm