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Tracy Chevalier is best known for her historical novels, including the international bestseller Girl with a Pearl Earring and, most recently, At the Edge of the Orchard. She is also editor of Reader, I Married Him: Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre. She lives with her family in London.
Tracy was born in Washington, D.C. and went to an elementary school with a majority of black students. This experience led her to choose to rewrite Othello. 'Othello is about what it means to be the outsider, and that feeling can start at an early age. We have all at one time or another stood on the edge of a playground, with the bullies circling, wondering if we are going to be accepted.'
High school, with its crushes, insecurities and politics, works as <b>the perfect backdrop to Shakespeare's original plot</b>... <i>New Boy</i>, with its angsty teenagers, racial frictions and a magnificently fleshed out antagonist, is <b>a tense and tight read</b>... It can be read in a single afternoon and it really is <b>a heady rollercoaster of emotions</b>, right to the breathless and shocking last line
- Tanya Sweeney, Irish Independent
This is <b>a compact and intense read full of twists, turns and intrigue</b>. The fast-moving shifting allegiances and rivalries that dominate the playground provide a backdrop full of heightened emotion that <b>cleverly reflects the atmosphere of the original play</b>
- Mernie Gilmore, Daily Express
Chevalier is at her best when describing the tenderness of young love or conveying the inner thoughts of her protagonists ... Chevalier <b>deftly and succinctly</b> gives [her characters] all more of a backstory than Shakespeare ever allowed ... <b>transposing this story to the playground makes absolute sense</b>. It is of interest as an exercise in illustrating the universality of the original, and <b>works equally well as a standalone piece</b> which tells of a tightly wound, intimately imagined situation hurtling towards inevitable tragedy
- Kirsty McLuckie, Scotland on Sunday
What Chevalier has done is recast the play to illuminate the peculiar trials of our era... <b>a fascinating exercise</b> ... In Chevalier's handling, the insidious manipulations of <i>Othello</i> translate smoothly to the dynamics of a sixth-grade playground, with all its skinned-knee passions and hop-scotch rules ... How Chevalier renders Iago's scheme into the terms of a modern-day playground provides some <b>wicked delight</b>. She's <b>immensely inventive</b> about it all
- Ron Charles, Washington Post
Chevalier’s modern interpretation of <i>Othello </i><b>deftly explores race relations in the schoolyard in 1970s suburban Washington</b>, and captures how it feels to be an outsider
- Anita Sethi, i, 2017 Books of the Year
<i>Othello</i> as a Seventies schoolyard drama? <b>Yes, it works marvellously</b>. The emotions of emerging adolescence are <b>a potent brew</b>, with friendships, rivalries, budding sexuality, and the desire to fit in combining unflinchingly with the racism of the teachers (and some of the pupils). This is <b>an evocative retelling of Shakespeare</b>, and his characters’ interactions and motivations fit surprisingly well into the brutal world of childhood
- Joanne Harris,
<b>Powerful and intriguing</b>
- Deidre O'Brien, Sunday Mirror
To add urgency to an everyday story of high-school bullying, [Chevalier] compresses the action into the cycle of a school day. It's <b>a clever strategy, executed with typical aplomb</b> by the gifted author of <i>Girl With a Pearl Earring</i>... Her <i>New Boy</i> is <b>an often inspired riff on adolescence and alienation</b>
- Robert McCrum, The Observer
<i>New Boy </i>is in the tradition of movies such as <i>10 Things I Hate About You </i>or <i>West Side Story</i>, or Toni Morrison's play <i>Desdemona </i>... <b>A deft examination</b> of the accommodations a boy such as Osei must make wherever he goes ... Chevalier is <b>delicate in her description</b> of the emotional and mental cost of all this careful avoidance
- Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, The Guardian
<p>Tracy Chevalier's <b>powerful drama</b> of friends torn apart by jealousy, bullying and betrayal will <b>leave you reeling<br /></b></p>
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Tracy Chevalier is best known for her historical novels, including the international bestseller Girl with a Pearl Earring and, most recently, At the Edge of the Orchard. She is also editor of Reader, I Married Him: Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre. She lives with her family in London.
Tracy was born in Washington, D.C. and went to an elementary school with a majority of black students. This experience led her to choose to rewrite Othello. 'Othello is about what it means to be the outsider, and that feeling can start at an early age. We have all at one time or another stood on the edge of a playground, with the bullies circling, wondering if we are going to be accepted.'