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'The disappearance of Bo Rabbit in 1984 left the Rabbit women crippled by grief. Bo’s mother, Rosemary, and Bo’s younger sister, Delia, became disjointed and dysfunctional, parting ways not long after Delia turned eighteen.
'Now a teacher at a Queensland college, Delia’s life is dissolving. She gave up on her own art, began a relationship with a student, and is struggling to raise her three growing children, Olive, Charlie and Benjamin. And now she must also care for her mother.
'Despite it all, the Rabbits are managing, precariously. Or, they were until sixteen-year-old Charlie Rabbit disappears in the middle of a blinding heatwave. The family reels from the loss, and struggles to cope as the children’s estranged father, Ed, re-enters their lives.
'Only nothing is quite as it seems, and Charlie’s disappearance soon proves to be just that – a disappearance, or, rather, an unexpected bout of invisibility he’s unable to reverse.
'The Rabbits is a multigenerational family story with a dose of magical realism. It is about family secrets, art, very mild superpowers, loneliness and the strange connections we make in the places we least expect.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Notes
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Dedication : For my Grandma, who made me love stories, and for my Nona, who knew how to tell them
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Epigraph : "And now as I disappear, someone else becomes real" - Tiniest Seed, Angel Olsen
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Rabbit Hearts
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , November 2021;
— Review of The Rabbits 2021 single work novel -
The Rabbits by Sophie Overett Review : A Unique and Captivating Tangle of Magic and Mystery
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 16 July 2021;
— Review of The Rabbits 2021 single work novel -
Fantasies and Flaws New Novels by Hugh Breakey, Kim Lock, and Sophie Overett
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 435 2021; (p. 21-22)
— Review of The Beautiful Fall 2021 single work novel ; The Other Side of Beautiful 2021 single work novel ; The Rabbits 2021 single work novel -
The Rabbits, Sophie Overett
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 3-9 July 2021;
— Review of The Rabbits 2021 single work novel'Delia Rabbit does not paint anymore. Yet when her son Charlie goes missing – dredging up memories of Delia’s sister, Bo, who also disappeared when they were teenagers – she picks up her brush once again, as if she can magic him back through art.' (Introduction)
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The Rabbits, Sophie Overett
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 3-9 July 2021;
— Review of The Rabbits 2021 single work novel'Delia Rabbit does not paint anymore. Yet when her son Charlie goes missing – dredging up memories of Delia’s sister, Bo, who also disappeared when they were teenagers – she picks up her brush once again, as if she can magic him back through art.' (Introduction)
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Fantasies and Flaws New Novels by Hugh Breakey, Kim Lock, and Sophie Overett
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 435 2021; (p. 21-22)
— Review of The Beautiful Fall 2021 single work novel ; The Other Side of Beautiful 2021 single work novel ; The Rabbits 2021 single work novel -
The Rabbits by Sophie Overett Review : A Unique and Captivating Tangle of Magic and Mystery
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 16 July 2021;
— Review of The Rabbits 2021 single work novel -
Rabbit Hearts
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , November 2021;
— Review of The Rabbits 2021 single work novel
Awards
- 2020 winner PRH Australia Literary Prize