{"product_id":"white-rabbits-down-below-leonora-carrington","title":"White Rabbits\/Down Below - Leonora Carrington","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePre-order your copy now at a special discount and we will post it to you after the publication day, the 9th of July 2026!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 1940, Leonora Carrington - a twenty-two-year-old British-born Surrealist artist - was persuaded to flee France and the advancing German army for Spain. Already suffering from a psychotic break occasioned by the arrest of her lover by the Nazi authorities, she was soon confined to a mental institution, where she was subjected to sadistic treatment under the guise of medical care. In her memoir, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDown Below\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, she describes her experiences with an anthropologist's precision and an artist's sense of the fantastic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis volume also includes a selection of Carrington's best stories from across her lifetime, functioning as companion pieces to her surrealist-inflected non-fiction. They include 'The Debutante', in which a young woman, wishing to avoid a ball in her honour, swaps places with a hyena; 'White Rabbits', which sees a friendly neighbour come by to ask for spare decomposing meat; and 'My Flannel Knickers', in which a woman has sainthood forced upon her.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: \u003cspan\u003ePenguin Classics\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished: July 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePages: 128\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDimensions: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e197mm x 8mm x 128mm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58333352788352,"sku":"9780241809617","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1331\/9421\/files\/WhiteRabbits_DownBelow-LeonoraCarrington.jpg?v=1782454669","url":"https:\/\/shop.freud.org.uk\/products\/white-rabbits-down-below-leonora-carrington","provider":"Freud Museum Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}