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 ...

A self? These questions haunt the aptly (if somewhat boringly) titled “Practice,” the debut novel by British writer Rosalind Brown that follows Annabel through a single Sunday, during which ...

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 ...

Rosalind Brown’s debut novel could be understood as a midrash on ... The action, like in Montaigne’s essay, is all inside Annabel’s disciplined practice and runaway mind. Because of this, the ...