埃莉诺•卡顿，新西兰作家，1985年出生于加拿大，在坎特伯雷大学学习英语，并在新西兰惠灵顿维多利亚大学获得创意写作的硕士学位。2008年进入美国爱荷华作家工作室进修。因处女作《彩排》而获得众多文学奖项,一举成名。在2009年被誉为“年度小说黄金女孩”。目前在新西兰马努卡理工学院教授创意写作。

2013年凭借小说《发光体》（The Luminaries）获得布克奖，成为该奖项史上最年轻的获奖者。

All the world's a stage--and nowhere is that more true than at an all-girls high school, particularly one where a scandal has just erupted. A teacher has had an affair with his underage student, and though her friends pretend to be dismayed, they are secretly curious and jealous. They obsessively examine the details of the affair under the watchful eye of their stern and enigmatic saxophone teacher, whose focus may not be as strictly on their upcoming recital as she implies.

When the local drama school turns the story of the scandal into their year-end show, the real world and the world of the theater are forced to meet. With both performances--the musicians' and the acting students'--approaching, the boundaries between dramas real and staged, private and public, begin to dissolve. THE REHEARSAL is a tender portrait of teenage yearning and adult regret, an exhilarating, darkly funny, provocative novel about the complications of human desire.