When God was a Rabbit: From the bestselling author of STILL LIFE

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The novel explores so many different kinds of love: platonic, familial, romantic and I’m glad that it wasn’t restricted to just one kind but all kinds.

I think if more had been adequately explained instead of threads been given and then left hanging it would have been much more satisfying and if we had had a couple of major themes in the book rather than 101 we might have had more loose ends tied up. I would recommend this novel to anyone, young or old, male or female as I think there really is something in this for anyone. Perhaps the absence of the event, the unspoken-ness of it, is supposed to be the point, but I found it all much too vague - if your concentration lapsed for a couple of sentences you could easily miss that it had happened at all.

Told through the narrative voice of the main character, Elly (from infancy through to adulthood), Winman reminds us that life's journey isn't always as smooth as envisaged.

Meanwhile, Joe goes off to school and later to New York and Elly is left to wander in the woods, delve further and further into herself and just get weird. Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition. Inevitably, some of the lightness leaves the writing here - even Winman can't be amusing about the fall of the Twin Towers. I was delivered by an off-duty nurse in my parents’ b page-turner, forget it: This is a straight gee-whiz, first-to-have-ever-noticed college novel—"Hampden College, as a body, was always strangely prone to hysteria.

The book is divided into two halves - Elly's childhood, beginning in 1968, and her adulthood, from 1995 onwards - and these sections in turn are split up into lots of short chapters. A series of events, linked or otherwise, that start quirky and end artfully or in some combination of that. This coming-of-age novel is praised for its comments on familial ties and the loss of childhood innocence. Lack of detail is a problem at other points in the book, the most obvious example being that Elly is sexually abused by a neighbour as a child, but as it's never directly referred to or talked about (until the very end, and even then we don't find out what actually happened), this is a weirdly indistinct detail and you never get any sense of how it has truly affected her.

If you are the publisher or author and feel that they do not properly reflect the range of media opinion now available, send us a message with the mainstream reviews that you would like to see added. This story could have been written without them and in that way the story would not have been so much of an obvious novel. The offbeat coming-of-age story of Elly, an English girl with an overactive imagination, an intense bond with her older brother, a Belgian hare named god and multiple dates with destiny in post-9/11 New York. Până și cele mai dramatice momente sunt depășite cu brio, iar traumele din copilărie sunt procesate cu dârzenie în exclusivitate pe cont propriu. Every once in a while you read a book that passes straight into your bloodstream, and you are hardly aware of how it happened.The novel, with its distinctive feminist tang, starts with the sentence: “When I was born, the name for what I was did not exist. But Elly is soon to be spoiled for friendship when the mysterious Jenny Penny comes into her life as the new girl at school. When God was a Rabbit describes itself as the story of a brother and sister, "about childhood and growing up, friendships and families, triumph and tragedy and everything in between.