Rabbit Sullivan

Apr 28, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | David Hebblethwaite |Rabbit Sullivan |Tania Chen |Dawn Vogel

At one point in this latest novel by Irish writer Sophie White, we come across what would be a suitable motto for the book, which creates a whole microcosm of fairy-tale horror without a trace of the supernatural: “Apparitions are scary,” its narrator, Aoileann, tells us, “but the real horror is to be found in people.”Aoileann lives on an island with her mother Aoibh and paternal grandmother (“Móraí”).