You Must Be Very Intelligent: The PhD Delusion
“PhD novel is ‘wake-up call’ on supervisor-student ‘power plays’” – Times Higher Education
“It is a humorous but tragic story of postgrad life and it lets the innocent reader peer inside the university cloisters (like Dorothy peering behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz.)” Springer Nature
“The story is immersive, and I felt like I was there with our hero every step of the way.” Chemistry World
“A new novel about academic life is not a ringing endorsement, to say the least. But it will make you laugh. And that’s the point.” – Inside Higher Ed.
Karin Bodewits’ partly autobiographic book “You must be very intelligent – The PhD Delusion” is a revealing, tongue in cheek tale about PhD life. Metior Magazine
“Fictionalised memoir exposes ‘dubious’ PhD experience in ‘modern, successful university’” Campus Review
“Cracking read, highly amusing yet, at times, bleak as hell’s gate – in a good way.” Amazon.co.uk