"Charming and intriguing, switching from playful to creepy to heartfelt and back again. characterises The Rabbit Back Literature Society" ( Metro) "Charming, chilling and gripping from its very first page" ( Bizarre)
Unexpected, thrilling and absurd" ( Sunday Telegraph)
a very grown-up fantasy masquerading as quirky fable. Hints of Let the Right One In and Haruki Murakami's elliptical early science fiction novels flavour a creepy tale about mutating books, buried secrets and ghostly encounters" James Lovegrove, ( Financial Times) "The Rabbit Back Literature Society Mixes the small-town surrealism of Twin Peaks with the clandestine-society theme of Donna Tartt's The Secret History’ The List Unnerving, enigmatic. He teaches Finnish language and literature and is the father of three sons. A novelist and short-story writer, he is well known for his fantasy and sci-fi narratives and has twice won the Kuvastaja Fantasy Prize given by Finland's Tolkien Society and four times won the Atorax Award for Fantasy. Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, born in 1966, is one of Finland's best-kept secrets. In this chilling, darkly funny novel, the uncanny brushes up against the everyday in the most beguiling and unexpected of ways. What is its mysterious ritual, 'The Game'? What explains the strange disappearance that occurs at Laura's winter party, in a whirlwind of snow? Why are the words inside books starting to rearrange themselves? Was there once another 10th member, before her? Slowly, disturbing secrets that had been buried come to light. Now a 10th member has been selected: Ella, literature teacher and possessor of beautifully curving lips.īut soon Ella discovers that the Society is not what it seems. Only very special people are chosen by children's author Laura White to join 'The Society', an elite group of writers in the small town of Rabbit Back. She came to realise that under one reality there's always another. A highly contagious book virus, a literary society and a Snow Queen-like disappearing author.
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