Practice

By: Rosalind Brown

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Paperback | 2 December 2025 | Edition Number 1

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208 Pages

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'A strange and shimmering joy' Jon McGregor
'Entrancing' TLS
'A lot of fun' Helen Oyeyemi

In a small room in an Oxford college, at the worn-out end of January, Annabel works on an essay about Shakespeare.

She has a carefully considered plan for her day, but as the essay's deadline looms, so too does the urge to procrastinate and the insistent presence of other people.

Elaborate erotic fantasies, telephone calls from her boyfriend, family and friends who demand her attention, and darker crises, obliquely glimpsed - all these distractions threaten to disturb the much-cherished quiet in Annabel's mind.

'Exquisite' Mark Haddon

'Wonderful' Guardian

'Fascinating' Olivia Laing

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Rich and precise and intelligent . . . Rosalind Brown is a unique - and wonderful - novelist

A fascinating, beautifully wrought theatre of the mind that reminded me by turns of Virginia Woolf and Nicholson Baker

Practice totally won me over, not least on account of its many passages of exquisite writing

I lost myself in every perfect, surprising sentence

A day in the life of an introspective and erudite student, Practice makes clear the gulf between an interior life and the one that is presented to the world. Rosalind Brown has a rare ability to record - with great humour, originality and near-hallucinogenic precision - the significance, or not, of each tumbling moment and thought

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