Case Study

'Enormous fun … a mystery and a psychological drama wrapped up in one. Case Study is a triumph.'

-- Alex Preston * Observer *

'Brilliant, bamboozling … Burnet captures his characters’ voices so brilliantly that what might have been just an intellectual game feels burstingly alive and engaging.'

-- Jake Kerridge * Telegraph *

“Sinister and cleverly done … punctures the myth-making of the period.”

-- Anthony Cummins * Daily Mail *

“What’s real and what’s not is beside the point in this skilful portrait of a disturbed woman and her encounters with an experimental 1960s psychotherapist … Both strands quickly become compelling … I was hooked like a fish.”

-- Leyla Sanai * Spectator *

'A thrilling investigation into the nature of sanity and identity'

-- Alice O'Keefe * Bookseller *

“Poses questions about the nature of the self and the authenticity of identity … fine comic passages … shed[s] light on the dark places of the mind … He is an uncommonly interesting and satisfying novelist.”

-- Allan Massie * Scotsman *

“Undoubtedly one of the best books of the year.”

-- Alistair Braidwood * Scots Whay Hae *

'A masterclass of diversion … blurring the lines of fiction and reality … serious and witty at once … an enthralling read.'

-- Heather McDaid * The Skinny *

'A novel of mind-bending brilliance. Graeme Macrae Burnet is a master of muddying the waters, of troubling ideas of truth and identity, fiction and documentary, and Case Study shows him at the height of his powers'

* Hannah Ke