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As a rumour spreads about a teacher sleeping with a student, a group of teenage girls are jolted into new awareness of their own vertiginous sexuality. Ripples move outward in unexpected directions: the saxophone teacher directs the girls in rehearsing their desires, and the local drama...
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The debut novel from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Luminaries and Birnam Wood.
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As a rumour spreads about a teacher sleeping with a student, a group of teenage girls are jolted into new awareness of their own vertiginous sexuality. Ripples move outward in unexpected directions: the saxophone teacher directs the girls in rehearsing their desires, and the local drama school adapts the scandal for a show.
Every action is a performance, and every platform a stage. The boundaries between private and public begin to dissolve – or perhaps they were never there.
Boldly inventive, unsettling, and exhilarating, The Rehearsal is a tender evocation of its young protagonists and a shrewd exposé of emotional compromise. It reveals the singular daring that has defined Catton’s career.
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ISBN: 9781776923311
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 09 July 2026
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: Te Herenga Waka University Press
Edition: New edition
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 352
About the Author
Eleanor Catton is the author of The Luminaries (2013), winner of the Booker Prize, the Canadian Governor General’s Literary Award, and the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction. Her debut novel, The Rehearsal (2008), won the New Zealand Best First Book of Fiction Award and the Betty Trask Prize, and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize and longlisted for the Orange Prize. Birnam Wood (2023) was shortlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction. As a screenwriter, Catton adapted The Luminaries for television, and Jane Austen’s Emma for feature film. Born in 1985 in Canada and raised in New Zealand, she lives in Britain.
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