Rabbit Hutch

Winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2022

A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award

A Waterstones Book of the Year for 2022

Winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize

An Oprah Daily Book of the Year, 2022

'Inventive, heartbreaking and acutely funny' Observer

Set over one sweltering week in July and culminating in a bizarre act of violence that finally changes everything, The Rabbit Hutch is a savagely beautiful and bitingly funny snapshot of contemporary America, a gorgeous and provocative tale of loneliness and longing, entrapment and, ultimately, freedom.

Behind the thin walls of a low-cost housing complex in the once bustling industrial centre of Vacca Vale, Indiana, residents search for meaning in their lives. An online obituary writer. A young mother with a dark secret. A woman waging a solo campaign against rodents. And Blandine, who shares her flat with three teenage boys she neither likes nor understands, all, like her, now aged out of the state foster care system that has repeatedly failed them.

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'The Rabbit Hutch is 2022's The Secret History' The Big Issue