The Rabbit Hutch

'A firecracker debut. Seriously impressive... The writing is incandescent, the range of styles and voices remarkable... There’s so much dazzling stuff here.'

-- The Sunday Times

'Inventive, heartbreaking and acutely funny.'

-- Observer

'Here is something new, a first novel with the wisdom and tenderness of a masterwork; an unflinching look at the down-and-outs that continue to rise and rise. The Rabbit Hutch is addictive, mesmerizing and unforgettable.'

-- Marlon James, author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf

'Every now and again a debut novel comes along which is so accomplished you almost suspect the writer's name is a pseudonym for a mischievous literary veteran. Sure-footed, richly imagined and highly original, you could say The Rabbit Hutch is 2022's The Secret History… a profound novel full of clever, thought-provoking ideas.'

-- The Big Issue

'Original and incisive... Breathtaking, compassionate and spectacular.'

-- The Irish Times

'Throughout, tension is mixed with hilarity, heartbreak with hope. It all makes for a gripping, memorable debut full of peculiar wonders.'

-- Mail on Sunday

'Philosophical, and earthy, and tender and also simply very fun to read.' 

-- Rivka Galchen, author of Little Labours

'Gunty writes with a keen, sensitive eye about all manner of intimacies.'

-- Raven Leilani, author of Luster

'Just when everything seemed designed for a brief moment of utility before its planned obsolescence, here comes The Rabbit Hutch, a profoundly wise, wildly inventive, deeply moving work of art whose seemingly infinite offerings will remain with you long after you finish it. Each page of this novel contains a novel, a world.'

-- Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated

'The Rabbit Hutch balances the banal and the ecstatic in a way that made me think of prime David Foster Wallace. It's a story of love, told without sentimentality; a story of cruelty, told without gratuitousness. Gunty is a captivating writer.'

-- Guardian

'Author Tess Gunty has the scope and acuity of David Foster Wallace, without the obscurantism and wilfully slow pace... Brilliant.'

-- Financial Times, The Best Debut Fiction round-up

'Strange, exuberant... Stylish.'

-- The T