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Sarah Winman

When God Was a Rabbit

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This is a book about a brother and a sister. It's a book about secrets and starting over, friendship and family, triumph and tragedy, and everything in between. More than anything, it's a book about love in all its forms.
In a remarkably honest and confident voice, Sarah Winman has written the story of a memorable young heroine, Elly, and her loss of innocence-a magical portrait of growing up and the pull and power of family ties. From Essex and Cornwall to the streets of New York, from 1968 to the events of 9/11, When God Was a Rabbit follows the evolving bond of love and secrets between Elly and her brother Joe, and her increasing concern for an unusual best friend, Jenny Penny, who has secrets of her own. With its wit and humor, engaging characters whose eccentricities are adroitly and sometimes darkly drawn, and its themes of memory and identity, When God Was a Rabbit is a love letter to true friendship and fraternal love.
Funny, utterly compelling, fully of sparkle, and poignant, too, When God Was a Rabbit heralds the start of a remarkable new literary career.
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274 printed pages
Publication year
2011
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  • gerardinosshared an impression5 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    💧Soppy

  • jchaplitskayashared an impression8 years ago
    🚀Unputdownable

Quotes

  • Julia Oulikhas quoted8 years ago
    I thought this is how it would be if the sun died; the gentle shutting down of an organ, sleepy, no longer working. No explosion at the end of life, just this slow disintegration into darkness, where life as we know it never wakes up because nothing reminds us that we have to.
  • Julia Oulikhas quoted8 years ago
    What a lovely house,” said my mother with not a jealous thought coursing through her mind.
    She was always like that: grateful for life itself. Her glass was not only half full, it was gold plated with a permanent refill.
  • ernestova13has quoted6 years ago
    Nancy was sitting in a deck chair next to Nelson and me on the lawn, finishing off her screenplay about a Second World War bisexual double agent that she’d casually entitled Playing for Both Sides (a film that would actually go into preproduction the following year, but not, thank goodness, with its working title).

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