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CASE STUDY
A woman investigates her sister's suicide and the potentially deadly persuasive power of a psychotherapist, in this gripping new novel by the Booker-shortlisted author
CASE STUDY opens with the author receiving a series of notebooks containing the story of a woman convinced her sister Veronica was persuaded by her psychotherapist A. Collins Braithwaite, to kill herself. And so an intriguing game of cat-and-mouse between therapist and patient, between narrator and reader, even author and reader, begins.
1960s London. The unnamed narrator decides to meet Braithwaite, and try to ascertain whether he did in fact cause Veronica's death. She assumes the name of Rebecca Smyth and begins visiting the therapist. Braithwaite is a domineering and powerful individual, probing Rebecca' with blunt and unorthodox questions, in a series of increasingly tense therapy sessions. Was he really responsible for her sister's death?
As the sessions continue, the narrator and her Rebecca' persona begin to separate, and her grip on reality slips. Braithwaite knows she is not who she says she is. But does she know anymore?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Graeme Macrae Burnet was brought up Kilmarnock, Ayrshire and now lives in Glasgow. He has also lived in the Czech Republic, France, Portugal and London and has appeared at festivals and events all over the world.
His first novel, THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ADÈLE BEDEAU (Contraband, 2014), received a New Writer's Award from the Scottish Book Trust and was longlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award. A second Inspector Gorski novel, THE ACCIDENT ON THE A35, was published in 2017.
HIS BLOODY PROJECT (Contraband, 2015) won the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the LA Times Book Awards. It has been published to great acclaim around the world.
'Extravagantly talented.' Mark Lawson, The Guardian
'Maddeningly brilliant.' Sydney Morning Herald
'A writer of great skill and authority.' Barry Forshaw, Financial Times
Gripping and intelligent.' Philip Pullman, The Guardian
1960s London. The unnamed narrator decides to meet Braithwaite, and try to ascertain whether he did in fact cause Veronica's death. She assumes the name of Rebecca Smyth and begins visiting the therapist. Braithwaite is a domineering and powerful individual, probing Rebecca' with blunt and unorthodox questions, in a series of increasingly tense therapy sessions. Was he really responsible for her sister's death?
As the sessions continue, the narrator and her Rebecca' persona begin to separate, and her grip on reality slips. Braithwaite knows she is not who she says she is. But does she know anymore?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Graeme Macrae Burnet was brought up Kilmarnock, Ayrshire and now lives in Glasgow. He has also lived in the Czech Republic, France, Portugal and London and has appeared at festivals and events all over the world.
His first novel, THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ADÈLE BEDEAU (Contraband, 2014), received a New Writer's Award from the Scottish Book Trust and was longlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award. A second Inspector Gorski novel, THE ACCIDENT ON THE A35, was published in 2017.
HIS BLOODY PROJECT (Contraband, 2015) won the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the LA Times Book Awards. It has been published to great acclaim around the world.
'Extravagantly talented.' Mark Lawson, The Guardian
'Maddeningly brilliant.' Sydney Morning Herald
'A writer of great skill and authority.' Barry Forshaw, Financial Times
Gripping and intelligent.' Philip Pullman, The Guardian
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