Practice

"In Rosalind Brown’s beguiling short novel, an ambitious but restless and libidinous Oxford undergraduate runs into the age-old philosophical mind-body problem in her struggles to drum up a worthy topic for an essay on Shakespeare’s sonnets, due the next day. The result is a simultaneously serious and entertaining meditation on physical and intellectual appetites. Practice joins a shelf of fiction about the writerly discipline involved in filling a blank page with something original and compelling. But it is also about the art of reading and engaging with a text, body and soul."