Case Study

By Graeme MacRae Burnet,

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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…

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1 author picked Case Study as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I am drawn to books that allow the reader to draw their own conclusions rather than a narrator steering the interpretation. In this novel, the narrative is presented through notebooks and a diary, and it reveals the case of a young woman and her sessions with a deeply suspect psychotherapist, set in the context of the R.D.Laing anti-psychiatry movement.

My belief in each narrator kept shifting, and by the end, I found myself questioning the whole dynamic between a therapist and patient and the dangers of this type of power relationship. 

From Martin's list on people in dangerous systems of belief.

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