Practice -- Rosalind Brown, Hardcover

An astonishing first novel about a day in the life of a young student who experiences her thoughts, fantasies, and wishes as she writes about--or tries to write about--Shakespeare's sonnets.

Rosalind Brown's Practice shows us just one day. Annabel, sitting in her small student room, attempts to write an essay about Shakespeare. She follows a meticulous, solitary routine but finds it repeatedly thrown off course as the day progresses: by family and friends who demand her attention and time, by thoughts of her much older boyfriend and his impending visit, by wild sexual fantasies and stories of her own invented characters--and by darker crises, obliquely glimpsed but capable of derailing Annabel's carefully laid plans.

Author: Rosalind Brown
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 06/25/2024
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780374613013

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2024
Booklist 05/01/2024 pg. 20
Publishers Weekly 06/03/2024

About the Author
Rosalind Brown was born in 1987, grew up in Cambridge, England, and now lives in Norwich. Her work has been published in The Paris Review, Best British Short Stories 2017, Lighthouse, Ambit, MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, and Propel Magazine.