- Published: 04/03/2010
- ISBN: 9781847081391
- 129x20mm
- 320 pages
The Rehearsal
Eleanor Catton
A high-school sex scandal jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own potency and power. The publicity seems to turn every act into a performance and every platform into a stage. But when the local drama school decides to turn the scandal into a show, the real world and the world of the theatre are forced to meet, and soon the boundaries between private and public begin to dissolve … The Rehearsal is an exhilarating and provocative novel about the unsimple mess of human desire, at once a tender evocation of its young protagonists and a shrewd expose of emotional compromise.
£8.99
As debuts go, this one is astral - as well as teasing, intelligent and knowing ... Catton anatomizes brilliantly the psychology of youth, its sexual mores, it's posing pretentiousness, its worries, its bravado ... So much accomplishment carried so lightly
Scotsman
It represents a starburst of talent and the arrival of an author wholly different from anyone else writing today
Sunday Times
A supremely confident piece of writing ... the clarity of its thought and language make it a definite contender for debut of the year
Independent
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