# White Rabbits/Down Below

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- Book: [White Rabbits/Down Below](https://www.bookquiver.com/leonora-carrington/white-rabbitsdown-below) ([White Rabbits/Down Below.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/leonora-carrington/white-rabbitsdown-below.md))
- Authors: [Leonora Carrington](https://www.bookquiver.com/leonora-carrington)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-18-3731-261-0
- Published: 2026-07-09
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

In 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, Down Below , she describes her experiences with an anthropologist's precision and an artist's sense of the fantastic. This 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.