Case Study

Case Study
Graeme Macrae Burnet
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 288pg
14 Apr 2022 UK
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9781913393441
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A cerebral, compulsive psychological novel from the bestselling author of His Bloody ProjectI am convinced, you see, that Dr Braithwaite killed my sister, Veronica. I do not mean that he murdered her in the normal sense of the word, but that he is, nonetheless, as responsible for her death as if he had strangled her with his bare hands. Two years ago, Veronica threw herself from the overpass at Bridge Approach in Camden and was killed by the 4. 45 to High Barnet. You could hardly imagine a person less likely to commit such an act. She was twenty-six years old, intelligent, successful and passably attractive. Regardless of this, she had, unbeknown to my father and me, been consulting Dr Braithwaite for some weeks. This I know from his own account. When a young woman becomes convinced that her sister' s therapist was responsible for her suicide, she assumes an alter ego and presents herself as a client at his clinic, determined to get to the bottom of the charismatic therapist' s relationship with her sister. But just who is she convincing with her performance of the deeply troubled Rebecca? Case Study is a game of cat-and-mouse between therapist and patient, between truth and deception, and between author and reader. It is a novel seething with secrets and teasing questions about the nature of identity itself, an enthralling, playful and layered depiction of 1960s society and the radical psychiatry propounded by R. D. Laing.
' Spellbinding . . . Riveting, dark and ingeniously constructed. ' * Sunday Times on His Bloody Project * ' Burnet proves that the undeniable pleasures of the crime novel can be combined with real literary value and an experimental narrative structure. . . Burnet is a writer of great skill and authority. ' * Financial Times on His Bloody Project * ' A gripping crime story, a deeply imagined historical novel, and gloriously written all in one tour-de-force of a book. ' * Herald on His Bloody Project *
Graeme Macrae Burnet was born and brought up in Kilmarnock and now lives in Glasgow. In between, he lived in Prague, Bordeaux, Porto and London. Case Study is his fourth novel. His second book, His Bloody Project, which deals with a triple murder in a crofting village in the Scottish Highlands, was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize and won the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award and the Vrij Netherlands Thriller of the Year, and was shortlisted for the LA Times Book Awards. It has become a bestseller in several countries and is published in twenty-one languages.

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