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You Must be Very Intelligent is the author´s account of studying for a PhD in a modern, successful university. Part-memoir and part-exposé, this book is highly entertaining and unusually revealing about the dubious morality and desperate behaviour which underpins competition in twenty-first century academia.

This witty, warts-and-all account of Bodewits years as a PhD student in the august University of Edinburgh is full of success and failure, passion and pathos, insight, farce and warm-hearted disillusionment. She describes a world of collaboration and backstabbing; nefarious financing and wasted genius; cosmopolitan dreamers and discoveries that might just change the world... Is this a smart people´s world or a drip can of weird species? Modern academia is certainly darker and stranger than one might suspect...

This book will put a wry, knowing smile on the faces of former researchers. And it is a cautionary parable for innocents who still believe that lofty academia is erected upon moral high ground...

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Dedication.- Foreword.- Prologue.- Part I: Before.- Part II: Year 1.- Part III: Year 2.- Epilogue.

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"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." (Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed, February, 2018)
"The story is immersive, and I felt like I was there with our hero every step of the way." (Chemistry World, chemistryworld.com, January 2018)

"Karin Bodewits´ partly autobiographic book ´You must be very intelligent - The PhD Delusion´ is a revealing, tongue in cheek tale about PhD life." (Ulrike Träger, Metior Magazine, November, 2017)

"PhD novel is ´wake-up call´ on supervisor-student ´power plays´" (Times Higher Education, November, 2017)

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