“Graeme Macrae Burnet is a master of the false but apparently authentic document,” said Allan Massie in The Scotsman. Such records featured heavily in His Bloody Project (2015), his Booker-shortlisted novel about a fictional 19th century murder. And they do so again in his “uncommonly interesting” new work.
Case Study opens with Burnet informing us that he is writing a biography of the radical psychiatrist Collins Braithwaite, who “became a celebrity in the 1960s”, said Jake Kerridge in The Daily Telegraph.
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