Their one defense is a six-foot-wide trench full of buttons, something which the Trolls find unaccountably terrifying (it's their clickiness). Sixteen-year-old Jennifer Strange and her sidekick and fellow Orphan Tiger Prawns have been driven to the tip of the UnUnited Kingdoms - Cornwall - by the invasion of the Trolls. 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 had ever thought about their friends, their nation, and their species.Īn inimitable blend of satire, fantasy and thriller, The Constant Rabbit is the latest dazzlingly original foray into Jasper Fforde's ever-astonishing creative genius. and soon discover that you can be a friend to rabbits or to humans, but not both. Unusually, their neighbors-longtime resident Peter Knox and his daughter, Pippa-decide to stand with them. But Mrs Constance Rabbit is made of sterner stuff, and she and her family decide they are to stay. No sooner have the rabbits arrived than the villagers decide they must depart, citing their propensity to burrow and breed, and their shameless levels of veganism.

They wear clothes and can walk, talk and drive cars, the result of an inexplicable Spontaneous Anthropomorphizing Event fifty-five years earlier.Ī family of rabbits is about to move into Much Hemlock, a cozy little village in Middle England where life revolves around summer fetes, jam making, gossipy corner stores, and the oh-so-important Spick & Span awards for the best-kept village. There are 1.2 million human-size rabbits living in the UK.

When they start to come true, you begin to doubt your sanity.īut teasing truth from the Winter is never easy: You have to avoid the Villains and their penchant for murder, kidnapping and stamp collecting ensure you aren't eaten by Nightwalkers, whose thirst for human flesh can only be satisfied by comfort food and sidestep the increasingly less-than-mythical WinterVolk.īut so long as you remember to wrap up warmly, you'll be fine. When the dreams start to kill people, it's unsettling. You are investigating an outbreak of viral dreams which you dismiss as nonsense nothing more than a quirky artefact born of the sleeping mind.

Your name is Charlie Worthing and it's your first season with the Winter Consuls, the committed but mildly unhinged group of misfits who are responsible for ensuring the hibernatory safe passage of the sleeping masses. Every Winter, the human population hibernates.ĭuring those bitterly cold four months, the nation is a snow-draped landscape of desolate loneliness, devoid of human activity.

The big over easy by jasper fforde