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Jasper Fforde on rabbits, racism and writing fiction ‘to slightly improve a flawed world’
Author grapples with big issues in The Constant Rabbit, a bonkers story with a dark undercurrent – and plenty of Rickrolling
What would the UK look like if, 55 years ago, a mysterious event caused rabbits to become human-sized, intelligent and adopt the fashions of Beatrix Potter books?
- Elizabeth Flux
- The Guardian
For Jasper Fforde, that world doesn’t look too different from the one we’re in now.
Sure, there are a few changes – classic novels have been translated into “rabbity” and military recruit rabbits get hazed by finding carrots and copies of Watership Down in their…
If this all sounds a…