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Rabbit Hole

The first Jennette McCurdy book club pick for 2024

Kate Brody

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English
Bloomsbury
16 January 2024

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*A Jennette McCurdy book club pick
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*Cosmopolitan, The 20 best books to look forward to in 2024
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'I loved it: the fast pace, the wry protagonist, and how Brody painfully examines the measures we take to find closure' Jennette McCurdy 'A brilliant, dark debut about grief and the way in which the internet can magnify mania' Mail on Sunday 'I fell down Rabbit Hole in an obsessive spiral' Kate Reed Petty 'A twisty, pacy crime thriller' independent.co.uk 'A mindblowing debut' Heather Darwent 'A gritty tale of grief, family secrets and addiction' Observer

A deliciously dark and twisted debut about family secrets, true crime, and destructive obsession – by a striking new talent

Teddy Angstrom is no stranger to morbid public interest in her family’s tragedies. And when her father dies suddenly, ten years to the day after her sister Angie’s disappearance, she intends to maintain as much privacy as she always has.

Clearing out her father’s office, however, Teddy discovers her father’s double life: a decade-long investigation into wild conspiracies from a Reddit community of true crime fans fixated on Angie. Repelled and compelled in equal measure by this new online dimension, Teddy finds herself falling down that same rabbit hole.

So when nineteen-year-old Mickey, a charming amateur internet sleuth, materialises in real life, Teddy determines that the two of them are going to team up to find out what really happened to Angie – and whether there’s any chance she might still be alive.

But as she struggles to reconcile new information with old memories, Teddy doesn’t notice that her obsession is making her increasingly self-destructive. And she’s in way over her head before she’s realises that Mickey, too, is not all she seems…

Noirish, haunting and razor-sharp, as compulsive as a late-night Reddit binge, Rabbit Hole is an unforgettable debut about violence, family and grief.

'A smart and edgy mystery that kept me turning pages from start to finish' Alexis Schaitkin ‘I absolutely loved this book … I couldn't put it down’ Ainslie Hogarth 'An unputdownable debut from a writer I would follow anywhere' Allie Rowbottom

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Imprint:   Bloomsbury
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 153mm, 
ISBN:   9781526646729
ISBN 10:   1526646722
Pages:   384
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Kate Brody received her MFA from NYU and has published stories in the Literary Review, Pif, 34th Parallel and The Dirty Napkin. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.

Reviews for Rabbit Hole: The first Jennette McCurdy book club pick for 2024

Vivid, beautiful writing, and disturbing in the best way, Rabbit Hole is absolutely unputdownable -- MILA KUNIS I fell down Rabbit Hole in an obsessive spiral ... It’s a pitch-black story about ambiguous loss, and a blazingly feminist take on the self-destructive pull of the internet. And it’s poignant. And it’s unflinching. And that ending! Kate Brody is a star -- KATE REED PETTY, author of True Story A smart and edgy mystery that kept me turning pages feverishly from start to finish ... This is a story about girlhood, grief, the slippery nature of memory, and our society’s true crime obsession, and Brody delivers insights on these themes in prose that is both raw and beautiful. As we follow Teddy on her downward spiral, we are forced to ask: How much is the truth worth? -- ALEXIS SCHAITKIN, AUTHOR OF SAINT X Blistering, sexy, concentric and dark, Rabbit Hole is the ultimate literary thriller for the digital age, a Reddit whodunnit that is at once hyper-modern, and grounded by the deep emotionality of Kate Brody's enduring questions about grief and girlhood, caretaking and identity and how, in the absence of truth, to live a meaningful life. An unputdownable debut from a writer I would follow anywhere -- ALLIE ROWBOTTOM, author of Jell-O Girls and Aesthetica


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