Rabbits

'Darkly funny as Saltburn, but with kilts' - Val McDermid

Hugo Rifkind

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English

Polygon
01 October 2024

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Crime & Mystery; Adventure; Historical fiction

Tommo has just moved to a prestigious boarding school. A product of the middle class, and with new-found independence thrust upon him, he finds himself invited into fading crumbling country houses.

It's the early nineties and the elite he is now surrounded by is struggling for relevance. Alienated from the mainstream, and running low on inherited wealth, his peers have retreated into snobbery and fatalism. Initially awed by their poise and seduced by their hedonism, Tommo gradually becomes aware of sinister undercurrents and a suppressed rage that threatens to explode into violence.

In this world, half-remembered traditions mix with decadence and an awful lot of small dead animals. And sometimes, not just animals. When Tommo's friend Johnnie's brother is found dead, a shotgun at his feet, he realises there are secrets that everyone knows, but no one speaks about, or even acknowledges. And those secrets can no longer be hidden.

'Keeps the outrageous laughs and twists comingin equal measure' Alexander Larman,The Observer

By: Hugo Rifkind
Imprint: Polygon
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 465g
ISBN: 9781846976704
ISBN 10: 1846976707
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 01 October 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Hugo Rifkind is a columnist, critic and leader writer for The Times and a presenter on Times Radio, having formerly been a columnist for the Spectator, GQ and the Herald. He is a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4's comedy show The News Quiz, and an occasional guest on television shows that aren't supposed to be funny at all. He was born and raised in Edinburgh, studied in Cambridge, and now lives in North London in a house where everybody else speaks German, including the dog.

Reviews for Rabbits: 'Darkly funny as Saltburn, but with kilts' - Val McDermid

'Rabbits is an instantly compelling novel; it is simultaneously poignant, peculiar, tragic, and very, very funny. Highly recommended' -- Sathnam Sanghera 'A remarkable achievement, a novel that so well encapsulates the slightly feral condition of teenage boys tasting independence for the first time ... recreates a world unknown to most readers, like Saltburn, rather creepily repellent, but with all its fascination to the outsider' -- Linda Grant, Booker Shortlisted author of The Clothes on Their Backs