"An extraordinarily emotional, and unforgettable dream of a read that both whispers and screams into your heart and soul as it explores domestic abuse from a young boy’s viewpoint."
It’s difficult to describe just how beautiful and emotional yet raw and provocative this is, it quite simply took my breath away. The reality of domestic abuse hits hard in the most gentle and fragile of ways. A young boy escapes into his mind to avoid the daily threat within his home. The pages turn as if by magic, from the vulnerable strength of a mind able to create a vivid dream in which to hide.
Author and poet Wayne Holloway-Smith has the most exquisite way with words, they bend and flow, cutting into thoughts, slicing through feelings. I was encouraged to read out loud, to taste the sentences as well allow them access into my innermost being. I can still feel the goosebumps shivering down my arms and the tears gathering as I came to the end, and so it has to join our LoveReading Star Books as well as sit as a Liz Pick of the Month.
Highly recommended, Rabbitbox is an immensely powerful, haunting, and truly beautiful read.
A transfixing, heart-rending work which follows a mother and her young son living under the shadow of an all-consuming domestic threat, by T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet Wayne Holloway-Smith.
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A transfixing, heart-rending work which follows a mother and her young son living under the shadow of an all-consuming domestic threat, by T. S.
RABBITBOX features in the following genres: Book Club Recommendations, Liz Robinson's Picks of the Month, Recommendations, Star Books, General Fiction, Literary Fiction, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Poetry, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Poetry by individual poets, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Domestic abuse
Paperback. £11.69, down from the £12.99 cover price. In Stock.
RABBITBOX was written by Wayne Holloway-Smith and published by Scribner UK
RABBITBOX has 144 pages
£11.69, reduced from £12.99. In Stock.
