Rabbit
By: Nina Raine
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Description: It's Bella's 29th birthday. A select group of friends and former lovers meet for a drink to celebrate. They discuss sex and work and are simultaneously repelled and attracted by each other. Lively banter turns to personal insult as the bar becomes a gender battlefield. However, what they don't know is that Bella's father is terminally ill. His cancerous tumour becomes a metaphor for all the things his daughter perceives as wrong with her life - her overpaid but shallow job, her romantic dalliances that end in strife but most of all, the worry that she's not living up to other people's expectations.
Notes: Previously issued in print: London: Nick Hern Books, 2006.