London, 1965. A 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.

Autorentext

• A new high-concept novel from one of the most lauded, original, and popular British literary writers of his generation.
• A work of emotional depth and profound insight, but also in the author's trademark playful metafictional style.
• There will be an enormous amount of interest in this novel in the media and for readers around the world. And critics have hailed the novel is his best yet.

• His Bloody Project was a huge success, outselling all other titles on the 2016 Booker Prize shortlist and appearing on bestseller lists internationally.

  Klappentext

  A dazzling and darkly funny investigation into sanity, identity, and truth itself, with a page-turning, playful plot and labyrinthine layers.

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.

Zusammenfassung
From the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted His Bloody Project, Case Study is a fast-paced, often humorous novel of mind-bending brilliance a dazzling investigation into sanity, identity and truth itself.