Troubled Times of Magrieta Prinsloo, The

When zoologist Magrieta Prinsloo is put on the wrong antidepressant, her head comes unstuck.

She insults the head of her department, and impulsively resigns from her job. She accepts a position at the Bureau for Continuing Education, with the inscrutable Markus Potsdam as her boss. When he disappears one morning, matters become very complicated.

Winterbach's extraordinary gift as a novelist, and uncanny understanding of the human psyche, are again as evident as ever.