Booker Prize listing for Kilmarnock author after novel Case Study captures the attention

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A Kilmarnock author is in the running for one of the literary world’s biggest prizes.Graeme Macrae Burnet has been longlisted for the Booker Prize for his latest novel ‘Case Study’.This is the second time the author, a former Grange Academy pupil, has been nominated for the prize after being shortlisted in 2016 for ‘His Bloody Project’.Graeme, who now stays in Glasgow, said: “I could not be more thrilled that Case Study has made it to the Booker longlist."For your work to be deemed worthy of being in the running for such a prize is incredibly gratifying; and all the more so to do it in partnership with the brilliant Saraband Books.”Set in London in 1965, Case Study is the story of an unworldly young woman who believes that a charismatic psychotherapist, Collins Braithwaite, has driven her sister to suicide.The Ayrshire Live app is available to download now.Get all the local news in your area – plus features, football news and the latest on the coronavirus crisis – at your fingertips 24/7.The free download features the latest breaking news and exclusive stories while you can customise your page with the sections that matter to you.The Ayrshire Live app is available to download now on iOS and Android.Intent on discovering the truth, she assumes a false identity and presents herself to him as a client, recording her experiences in a series of notebooks.

But she soon finds herself drawn into a world in which she can no longer be certain of anything.In Case Study, Graeme presents these notebooks interspersed with the biography of Collins Braithwaite.Case Study was published in October 2021 by independent publisher Saraband to universal critical acclaim.The Irish Times described it as ‘compulsive reading’ and the Daily