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Case Study

By: Graeme Macrae Burnet
Narrated by: Serena Manteghi, Graeme Rooney
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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 believes that a charismatic psychotherapist, Collins Braithwaite, has driven her sister to suicide. Intent on confirming her suspicions, she assumes a false identity and presents herself to him as a client, recording her experiences in a series of notebooks. But she soon finds herself drawn into a world in which she can no longer be certain of anything. Even her own character.

In Case Study, Graeme Macrae Burnet presents these notebooks interspersed with his own biographical research into Collins Braithwaite. The result is a dazzling - and often wickedly humorous - meditation on the nature of sanity, identity and truth itself, by one of the most inventive novelists writing today.

©2021 Graeme Macrae Burnet (P)2021 Bolinda Publishing Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Psychological Fiction Witty Mystery
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i absolutely loved this book. it's a total delight. The writing style is masterful. Macrae Burnet's characterisation of the pseudo-therapist Braithwaite, his writing and run-ins with RD Laing, Dirk Bogarde et al is completely brilliant and wildly funny. On the one hand his character is a boorish provocateur, writing impenetrable waffle -- on the other, the ideas of the fictional books by Braithwaite are often quite clever in themselves. What might've simply been good satire thus becomes a far more complex and enjoyable proposition with many layers of irony and and various less than reliable narrators.

i enjoyed both the main characters and the readers, despite Rooney's odd pronunciations and wild accents. For Braithwaite he seems to lurch between Sunderland and Birmingham, never quite landing in Darlington. Nevertheless it was a total pleasure to listen to.

Brilliant, clever, thrilling and very witty

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