The Rehearsal

Author(s): Eleanor Catton

New Zealand Fiction

In the aftermath of a high-school sex scandal caused by a teacher's affair with an underaged student, a group of teenage girls becomes the focus of public scrutiny. After a local drama school decides to turn the scandal into a play, the boundaries between private and public, and fact and fiction, begin to dissolve.

Foxing to page edges


Product Information

Winner of Betty Trask Award 2009 and New Zealand Society of Authors Best First Book Awards: Hubert Church Award for Fiction 2009. Shortlisted for Montana New Zealand Book Awards: Fiction Category 2009 and Guardian First Book Award 2009 and Dylan Thomas Prize 2010.

General Fields

  • : 9780864735812
  • : Victoria University Press
  • : 0.436
  • : 01 July 2008
  • : 210mm X 140mm
  • : New Zealand
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Eleanor Catton
  • : Paperback
  • : very good
  • : 316