A high-school sex scandal jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own
potency and power. The 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 boundaries between private
and public begin to dissolve ... The Rehearsal is an exhilarating and provocative novel about
the unsimple mess of human desire at once a tender evocation of its young protagonists and a
shrewd expose of emotional compromise.
