Trust Exercise
From the Booker-shortlisted author of Flashlight
Will be published approx. on 25. June 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-80649-225-1 (ISBN)
Description
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
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 their 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.
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 their 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.
Reviews / Votes
A devastatingly apt analysis of what men have gotten away with * The New York Times * Tricksy and beguiling -- Books of the Year * Economist * A masterly study of power and its abuses ... Choi shows how much we need our female novelists within the sea change of our current moment * Guardian * Taut, distinctive and deeply unsettling * Daily Mail * A Russian doll of a novel * Daily Telegraph * Will leave you shaken to your very core * Cosmopolitan * Remarkable ... a phosphorescent examination of sexual consent -- Top Books of 2019 * The New York Times * Tense and lovely -- Best Books of 2019 * New Yorker * Unputdownable -- Must-Read Books of 2019 * Time Magazine * Spellbinding -- Best Books of 2019 * Elle Magazine * Trust Exercise is Choi's fifth novel, and without a doubt her most ingenious yet. Sure, submitting to it is a "trust exercise" all of its own, but the razzmatazz that awaits is well worth it. -- Lucy Scholes * FT * Powerful, addictive, smart * Elle Magazine * A captivating, dark and unforgettable read * You *More details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Profile Books Ltd
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
271 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80649-225-1 (9781806492251)
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Person
Susan Choi is the author of the novels Flashlight, Trust Exercise, My Education, A Person of Interest, American Woman and The Foreign Student. She has won the National Book Award for Fiction, the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction, the PEN/W. G. Sebald Award and a Lambda Literary Award, and has been a finalist for the Women's Prize, the Booker Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at Johns Hopkins University.