Trust Exercise Susan Choi

Fiction £8.99 B-format paperback ISBN: 978 1 78816 168 8 272pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 506 6 February 2020 UK Com ex Can

The National Book Award-winning sensation and one of Barack Obama’s Books of the Year

Both inventive and shocking, Trust Exercise became a sensation on publication in the USA for its timely insights into sex, power and the nature of abuse.

Sarah and David are in love – the obsessive, uncertain love of teenagers on the edge of adulthood. At their performing arts school, the rules are made by the magnetic drama instructor Mr Kingsley, who initiates them into a dangerous game. Two decades on we learn that the real story of these teenagers’ lives is even larger and darker than we imagined, and the consequences have lasted a lifetime.

Trust Exercise is a brilliant, unforgettable novel about what we lose, gain and never get over as we’re initiated into the mysteries of adulthood.

Susan Choi is the author of five novels and was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W. G. Sebald Award in 2010 and is a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She teaches at Yale and lives with her family in Brooklyn.

‘A Russian doll of a novel’ Daily Telegraph

‘Will leave you shaken to your very core’ Cosmopolitan

‘A devastatingly apt analysis of what men have gotten away with’ The New York Times