Waterstones Welsh Book of the Month for August 2021
England,2020.
There are 1.2 million human-sized rabbits living in the UK.
They can walk,talk and drive cars,the result of an Inexplicable Anthropomorphising Event fifty-five years ago. And a family of rabbits is about to move into Much Hemlock,a cosy little village where life revolves around summer fetes,jam-making,gossipy corner stores,and the oh-so-important Best Kept Village awards.
No sooner have the rabbits arrived than the villagers decide they must depart. But Mrs Constance Rabbit is made of sterner stuff,and her family are behind her. Unusually,so are their neighbours,long-time residents Peter Knox and his daughter Pippa,who soon find that you can be a friend to rabbits or humans,but not both.
With a blossoming romance,acute cultural differences,enforced rehoming to a MegaWarren in Wales,and the full power of the ruling United Kingdom Anti Rabbit Party against them,Peter and Pippa are about to question everything they'd ever thought about their friends,their nation,and their species.
It'll take a rabbit to teach a human humanity
Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonISBN: 9781444763645Number of pages: 320Weight: 222 gDimensions: 196 x 128 x 22 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'A political satire cloaked in Fforde's trademark bizarre whimsy,the novel reads like a crazed cross between Watership Down and Nineteen Eighty-Four.'- The Guardian
'Fuelled by Fforde's trademark wit,imagination and brilliantly bizarre world-building... You won't read anything quite like this in 2020 - or beyond that too.'- CultureFly
Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde is a bestselling British novelist and the author of Thursday Next series. His latest book The Constant Rabbit is published in July 2020.
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