A case from practice

Long list of Buker Prize.
A hilarious and very British novel-Matryoshka about the crazy world of psychiatry of the 1960s.


“I decided to record everything that is happening now, because it seems to me that I am in danger,” writes a young woman investigating the suicide of her sister. Having come up with an alter-ego charismatic and mentally unstable girl named Rebecca Smith, she writes to the reception of the scandalously famous psychotherapist Collins Bretouita. She suspects that it was Bretwight who pushed her sister to suicide, and begins to keep a diary where she records the details of his communication with the psychotherapist.
However, faced with a contradictory, mysterious, and in places through the Charlatan world of psychiatry of the 60s, the heroine begins to doubt very much in her methods, but also in her own reason