Trust exercise / Susan Choi.
Publication details: London : Serpent's Tail, 2019.Description: 257 pages ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781788161671 (hardback)
- Romance fiction
- Performing arts -- Fiction
- Adolescence -- Fiction
- Life change events -- Fiction
- Teacher-student relationships -- Fiction
- High school students
- Interpersonal relations
- Man-woman relationships
- Performing arts high schools
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Performing arts high schools -- Fiction
- High school students -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
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Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | CHO | Available | 070450 |
Sarah and David are in love - the obsessive, uncertain love of teenagers on the edge of adulthood. They have just started their first term at a performing arts school, where the rules are made by their magnetic and manipulative drama instructor Mr Kingsley. Enclosing his students in a rarefied bubble where performance is everything, Mr Kingsley initiates them into a dangerous game that blurs the boundary between teacher and students. The outside world can't affect them - until the bubble bursts, and the students are left to deal with the fallout. Two decades on we learn that what we were told about these teenagers' lives is not completely true, but not completely false either. The real story surrounding Sarah, David and their fellow students is larger and darker than we imagined, and the consequences have lasted a lifetime.