The Rehearsal
Eleanor Catton

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synopsis

A high-school sex scandal jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own potency. The sudden publicity seems to turn every act into a performance and every space into a stage. But when the local college 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…

Eleanor Catton

was born in Canada and raised in New Zealand, where she has won several prizes for this, her first novel, including the 20008 Glenn Schaffer Fellowship to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.