{"product_id":"the-constant-rabbit-the-sunday-times-bestseller","title":"The Constant Rabbit: The Sunday Times bestseller","description":"Review\n\nA serious minded comedy ― Mail on Sunday\n\nA political satire cloaked in Fforde's trademark bizarre whimsy, the novel reads like a crazed cross between Watership Down and Nineteen Eighty-Four. ― Guardian\n\nFforde's engaging writing has created a story that is a clever blend of the biting allegorical satire we expect from Orwell's greatest hits and the good-natured adventures of Michael Bond's naïve and kind-hearted Paddington Bear. ― SciFi Now\n\nJasper Fforde's most chilling and realistic book yet ― Guardian\n\nThe Constant Rabbit is designed to shake readers out of that complacency: to recognise that merely holding liberal values is not enough to prevent the quickening advance of racism and xenophobia in this country. ― Financial Times\n\nIt's huge fun too, with all the inventive wordplay, impeccable worldbuilding and fiendish plotting that Fforde's \"Constant Readers\" have come to expect. ― SFX\n\nFuelled 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\n\nSheer inventiveness, wit, complexity, erudition, unexpectedness and originality ― The Times\n\nA born wordsmith of effervescent imagination ― Independent\n\nForget all the rules of time, space and reality; just sit back and enjoy the adventure ― Telegraph\n\nBrilliantly funny . . . His relentless imagination and his affection for his characters are contagious and irresistible ― New York Times\n\nTrue literary comic genius ― Sunday Express\n\nReading a Fforde novel feels like taking off on a magic carpet, only to be picked up by another and another and taken on new flights of fantasy . . . you just sit back and enjoy the ride ― Scotsman\n\nJasper Fforde's entertaining, surprisingly thoughtful yet fleet-footed new book-a standalone novel with a climax so dramatic, irrevocable, perfect yet unpredictable that it seems impossible to extend the book to a series-is the comedic master's foray into this thematic realm. It is, as one might expect, by turns droll and hilarious, poignant and cruel, hopeful and despairing. In other words, a true comedy in depth, a form that is not mere mindless japes and slapstick, but one which counsels us that if we don't laugh, we must cry. ― Locus\n\nAn astonishingly well-crafted work of social and political satire ― Kirkus Reviews\n\nLovely little satire...wonderfully imaginative and very funny. ― Spectator\n\nProduct Description\n\nTHE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR\n\n'The Constant Rabbit is Jasper Fforde's most chilling and realistic book yet' Guardian\n\n'You won't read anything quite like this in 2020 - or beyond that too' CultureFly\n\n***\n\nEngland, 2020.\n\nThere are 1.2 million human-sized rabbits living in the UK.\n\nThey can walk, talk and drive cars, the result of an Inexplicable Anthropomorphising Event fifty-five years ago.\nAnd 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.\n\nNo 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.\n\nWith 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.\n\nIt'll take a rabbit to teach a human humanity . . .\n\nPRAISE FOR JASPER FFORDE\n\n'Sheer inventiveness, wit, complexity, erudition, unexpectedness and originality' The Times\n\n'Is there anyone who can write satire quite like Fforde?. . . An astonishingly well-crafted work of social and political satire.' Kirkus\n\n'Ffo","brand":"smeikalbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40234170712149,"sku":"9781444763621N","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/1728fc68-3568-44cd-ba04-3b1177c9c0df.jpg?v=1660225609","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-constant-rabbit-the-sunday-times-bestseller","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}