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Rehearsal, The

Catton, Eleanor

A high-school sex scandal jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own potency and power. The sudden and total 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 bounds between private and public begin to fade. Catton won the Adam Prize in Creative Writing for this, her first novel.

Winner of the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction and Finalist in the 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, Fiction category.

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