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title: "Rabbit Cake"
brand: "annie hartnett"
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# Rabbit Cake

**Brand:** annie hartnett
**Price:** A$45
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Rabbit Cake by annie hartnett
- **How much does it cost?** A$45 with free shipping
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## Description

Rabbit Cake

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    she learns tough lessons about love and loss
  

*by E***H on Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2017*

Annie Hartnett's debut, Rabbit Cake, is a quirky, original, and poignant story of 10 year-old Elvis Babbit as she tries to make sense of her mother's sudden death. Elvis's mother was a sleepwalker, and at the beginning of the novel, Elvis and her family are reeling from her death by drowning while sleep-swimming. Elvis's older sister is also a sleepwalker, though Lizzy is prone to potentially more violent and destructive acts in her sleep (and while awake). Elvis seeks solace and comfort in the animals she researches and gets to know through her time volunteering at the local zoo. As Elvis tries to unlock the mysterious circumstances of her mother's death and wrestles with her relationship with her volatile older sister, she learns tough lessons about love and loss.Hartnett's writing is sharp and humorous while also moving. She doesn't offer any easy solutions for Elvis and the people around her. The adults Elvis turns to to make sense of her loss are both imperfect and well-meaning. Elvis's observations of the animals she's so knowledgeable about are both metaphorical and fascinating.Though this isn't a YA book, I think it might also appeal to a YA audience. The short chapters help the book move quickly as Elvis makes her way through her 18 month "grieving chart." A confident and imaginative debut, I'm looking forward to Hartnett's next book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    I want to hug this book, but you should read it
  

*by C***P on Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2017*

This book takes a look at grief and some serious family dysfunction that was surely going on before two young girls and an out-of-sorts dad lost their mother/his wife to what appears to be a suicide but possibly an accident. Annie Hartnett’s RABBIT CAKE follows young Elvis as she tries to hold her family together, cover up for her older sister who has a severe case of sleepwalking, help her father who has taken to wearing her mother’s lipstick and walk around in her robe, all the while trying to find clues about how she died, after her body was found in the river, where she used to swim alone at night.Elvis is one sharp pre-teen who is just trying to grieve. She is light years ahead of the counselor whom she sees at school who can’t seem to pry herself away from her own issues enough to help Elvis and is a stickler for rules when it comes to the stages of grief.​This book finds humor where there is not usually anything funny. It is quirky, warm and heart-mending, with characters who are truly unique. Whether or not you have experienced loss, I highly recommend this lovely book. This is a girl who had a mother who created a celebration of everyday life. Elvis is trying to find meaning now that her mother is gone. She has many doors to open. Including the oven door to the most delightful rabbit cakes. Note: I just found that Williams-Sonoma has a rabbit cake pan and it’s on sale!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Stellar debut novel!
  

*by S***D on Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2017*

RABBIT CAKE is a stellar debut novel from Annie Hartnett. I love novels where I’m not only emotionally drawn into the story but also amazed at the creative details and colorful writing. This story hit it out of the park for me.I have a soft spot for unconventional narrators, and 12-year old Elvis Babbitt is a true gem. Elvis is smart, strong and very funny (sometimes unintentionally). Elvis is grieving the recent loss of her mother. She’s the youngest but also the most grounded of the Babbitt family members. I appreciated her love of science and determination to get to the cause of her mother’s death. Of course, in life we can’t always find the answers we seek.While their father flounders, Elvis’ older sister Lizzie deteriorates as she struggles with sleepwalking and destructive behavior. The story sparkles with truths about living with a loved one who has mental illness. It can make life unpredictable and painful at times, but it also makes you appreciate sweet moments and small triumphs all the more when they do finally arrive. (And why not celebrate by baking rabbit-shaped cakes?)Beautifully-written and affecting, this novel will be kept on my special shelf of favorite books.

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