The Rehearsal

Overview

A daring novel about a high-school sex scandal that jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own potency and power, this is an exhilarating and provocative story about the complicated mess of human desire. Further enhancing these emotions, the boundaries between the public and private spheres blur when the local drama school decides to turn the scandal into a show. Noted for its startling originality, the tale is at once a tender evocation of its young protagonists and a shrewd exposè of emotional compromise.

Reviews

"Eleanor Catton is crazily talented and insightful—and best of all, she makes language seem new." —Emily Perkins, author, Novel About My Wife

Author Biography

Eleanor Catton is a writer and the recipient of the 2007 Sunday Star-Times short story competition and a fellowship to study at the prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop.