(There are a LOT of footnotes, which kept showing up in weird spots in my digital ARC, instead of at the bottom of the page, so things got a little convoluted at points, but hopefully the final book will not have such issues.). The basic premise in The Constant Rabbit is similar to that of many science fiction novels, featuring alien life-forms suddenly among us; Fforde's inspired twist is that the aliens are not extraterrestrial. As the byline reads “It’ll take a rabbit to teach a human humanity…” and for any reader with an open mind that’s what this book achieves. What I like about Fforde’s writing style is the wry humour, he tells it like it is – with a twist.  US$19.71, US$9.15 Secretly harbouring a desire to tell his own stories rather than help other people tell their's, Jasper started writing in 1988, and spent eleven years secretly writing novel after novel as he strove to find a style of his own that was a no-man. New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in LiteratureNew Books in Science FictionNew Books Network , Of course, this immediately made me think of Watership Down, another very powerful allegory:). Peter Knox, the main character, is a typically Ffordeian hero, kind of a moral wimp, but not in a bad way--except he's in a terrible spot, working for an organization that would like to see rabbits gone and lying to himself that he's still a good person. September 14, 2020 All posts, Book reviews, Disability, Fantasy, People of Color Jasper Fforde A review by Nalini Haynes It’s England in 2020 and there are over a million sentient anthropomorphic rabbits living in concentration camps – I mean “residential” camps – with some allowed to live in the human community. Fforde's first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001. The Constant Rabbit is a novel by Welsh author, Jasper Fforde. The 2020 United Kingdom that Fforde describes to the reader is very much an alternate one where, fifty-five years earlier, a Spontaneous Anthropomorphic Event transformed a selection of animals into human-sized, talking, walking, thinking creatures. That Fforde manages to do so in such a humorous way without sounding frivolous or moralizing is really quite amazing.

“The Constant Rabbit” is his 15th novel. Things don’t look good for Connie but she’s not going to hop away. Thanks is extended to Hachette Australia for providing me with a copy of The Constant Rabbit for review.  US$11.82, US$24.82 Alternative history, first-person narrative, fantastically silly humour, and a good smattering of anti-fascism wrapped up in all of this. It takes. In Jasper Fforde’s The Constant Rabbit (Viking, 2020), residents of the United Kingdom live among human-sized anthropomorphized rabbits. Despite cultural differences, they meet in the library and become friends.  US$10.50, US$10.30 Change ). They chose to live by a different set of values that were very much grounded in not eating meat, they also worshipped a different deity, and their family size was significantly larger than the average human one; all things that were viewed as very threatening to the order maintained by humans. ( Log Out /  As well as being enormously entertaining, there are some really important themes raised within this novel. Most readers will grasp the fact that this book is not going to be about Bugs Bunny. On 12th August 1965 The Event occurred, a strange phenomenon which led to 18 rabbits morphing into semi human shapes. So when you open this book & find yourself in an England where the neighbours are 6 ft. talking rabbits, you merely shrug & think “Oh, right. There are 1.2 million human-sized rabbits living  US$11.82, US$18.06 It’s bullshit. This is an at times funny, clever satire which encompasses several issues in a very different and entertaining way. There’s even a dig at the Playboy Bunny era. You’ll know what I mean if you read it, but as a hint, giant rabbits are not the only minority species to feature in this novel. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. I'll give it some time and try again later, maybe when the world is slightly less crazy. Would love to see what you think! No one writes like Jasper Fforde. Still, plenty of Fforde cleverness and touchpoints to keep one, A very witty and imaginative satirical tale about a population of anthropomorphised rabbits living in the UK, and the everyday prejudice they face in human society. I always love your books but my enjoyment of this one was less than usual because of the rabbits. Is this book written in the 1st person like the Thursday Next series, or is it more like the Nursery Crimes books?  US$17.75, US$11.79 Yes please! Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account.  US$22.33, US$21.25 Thank you!  US$18.00, US$37.86 There is a lot of tongue-in-cheek and snarky humor in the book and references to some of my favorite British TV shows from long ago. Characters who are eccentric yet ordinary.

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Fforde is one of my auto-buy authors, and I love his crazy humor, even in his one-off books. And, it’s a pure delight to escape into.  US$19.71, US$25.88 Rob Wolf is the host of New Books in Science Fiction and the author of The Alternate Universe and The Escape. This is a Jasper Fforde trope in all his books. Satirical and a bit tongue-in-cheek. Fforde began his career in the film industry, and for nineteen years held a variety of posts on such movies as Goldeneye, The Mask of Zorro and Entrapment.

by Jasper Fforde ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 29, 2020 Rabbits, foxes, weasels, and other creatures live as humans, among humans in Fforde’s wonderfully absurd new novel. Jasper Fforde previously worked in the film industry, and now lives and writes in Wales UK. Adding this one to my list. It’s speculative fiction but can’t be pegged as science fiction or fantasy as such. Published by Hodder & Stoughton Quirky but delightful worldbuilding. In control of the government, TwoLegsGood is planning to segregate the nation’s more than 1 million rabbits in a “MegaWarren” where they will be under round-the-clock surveillance and their freedoms curtailed. TwoLegsGood’s treatment of rabbit has echoes of all caste-based and hate-filled societies, from Jim Crow to apartheid to the Nazis. ‘The language of division can always be monetised.’. “I think the book is hoping to say to people, ‘Look, you cannot look at the hate groups and say “These people are the hate groups. As the story begins the government, run by the United Kingdom Against Rabbit Population is crac. Peter finds himself increasingly forced to take a stand putting his personal reputation at risk and threatening to reveal his job as a rabbit spotter, a position bound up in the discriminatory policies of the ruling party. This novel is an absolute highlight of my reading year. DNF without prejudice, because this book simply came at the wrong time for me. See all 3 questions about The Constant Rabbit…, Goodreads Choice Awards 2020 (eligible for write-in only).

Enter your email address to follow Theresa Smith Writes and receive notifications of new posts by email. This is great. . HodderBooks bags the new jasperfforde—The Constant Rabbit is a standalone novel, tackling topics of racism and privilege in a story about human-sized rabbits. Jasper Fforde’s new fantastical satire: what happens when a family of human-sized, human-like rabbits moves in next door? When will my order arrive?


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