Join bestselling author and winner of The Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize And National Book Award 2022 Tess Gunty, in conversation with Hepzhibah Anderson to celebrate the paperback publication of her book The Rabbit Hutch.

The event will initially be broadcast on 23 June at 6.30pm UK time. It will be available to view up to two weeks after the event has ended and can be accessed Worldwide. If you live in a time zone that does not suit the initial broadcast time you can watch it at any point after the initial showing for two weeks.

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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.

Amidst the pain and despair, there is hope. The Rabbit Hutch is a brilliantly written and boldly experimental tour de force that explores the depths of searching and longing for healing in today’s America. Don’t miss the chance to join Tess as she shares her inspiration for the novel and dives into the story’s themes.

“Gunty writes with a keen, sensitive eye about all manner of intimacies – the kind we build with other people, and the kind we cultivate around ourselves and our tenuous, private aspirations.” Raven Leilani

“Here is something new, a first novel with the wisdom and tenderness of a masterwork.” Marlon James