The main character of Rosalind Brown’s debut novel, Practice, is an Oxford undergrad named Annabel who is "trying to write" an essay on Shakespeare’s sonnets. The essay is due the following ...

Rosalind Brown’s “Practice” and Camille Bordas’s “The Material,” both set on university campuses, spotlight the challenges of wracking one’s brain to write something original and ...

Which makes Rosalind Brown’s tight, sly debut, Practice, a welcome gift for those who dither about their dithering. It presents procrastination as a vital, life-affirming antidote to the cult of ...

To say that not much happens in Rosalind Brown’s debut novel is both true, and not. Practice opens on a winter morning in 2009 when Annabel, an undergraduate in her final year at Oxford, wakes ...