Shortlisted for the 2022 Gordon Burn Prize - Shortlisted for the
2022 Ned Kelly Awards - Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize -
Longlisted for the 2022 HWA Gold Crown Award - Longlisted for the 2023
Dublin Literary Award
**SELECTED BY NEW YORK TIMES AS ONE OF 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2022
**
The Booker-shortlisted author of His Bloody Project blurs the lines
between patient and therapist, fiction and documentation, and reality
and dark imagination.
London, 1965. 'I have decided to write down everything that happens,
because I feel, I suppose, I may be putting myself in danger, ' writes
an anonymous patient, a young woman investigating her sister's suicide.
In the guise of a dynamic and troubled alter-ego named Rebecca Smyth,
she makes an appointment with the notorious and roughly charismatic
psychotherapist Collins Braithwaite, whom she believes is responsible
for her sister's death. But in this world of beguilement and
bamboozlement, neither she nor we can be certain of anything.
Case Study is a novel as slippery as it is riveting, as playful as it
is sinister, a meditation on truth, sanity, and the instability of
identity by one of the most inventive novelists of our time.
