Case Study

"Case Study" by Graeme Macrae Burnet is a dazzling, fun and thought-provoking novel about a woman who under a false name becomes a client of the psychotherapist whom she thinks played a vital part in her sister’s suicide.

 

In 1965 in London a young woman is deeply convinced that the charismatic psychotherapist Collins Braithwaite pushed her sister somehow into suicide. To seek out the truth she becomes a client under a false name. But it doesn’t take long before she finds herself in a world where she can’t define what is real.

 

Graeme Macrae Burnet’s "Case Study" was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2022.