Leyla Sanai

Mind games: the blurred line between fact and fiction

What’s real and what’s not is beside the point in this skilful portrait of a disturbed woman and her encounters with an experimental 1960s psychotherapist

Graeme Macrae Burnet 
issue 02 October 2021
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    Saraband, pp. 320, £14

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