THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Sheer inventiveness wit complexity erudition
unexpectedness and originality' The Times ______________________________________________
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 neigGebours 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 PRAISE FOR JASPER FFORDE 'A born
wordsmith of effervescent imagination' Independent 'Forget all the rules of time space and
reality just sit back and enjoy the adventure' Telegraph 'Endlessly imaginative and
distinctively quirky' Mail on Sunday on Early Riser 'True literary comic genius' Sunday
Express 'Brilliantly funny His relentless imagination and his affection for his
characters are contagious and irresistible' New York Times
