The Constant Rabbit

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781444763645

Price: £8.99

ON SALE: 22nd July 2021

Genre: Fantasy / Humour / Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)

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Reviews

A born wordsmith of effervescent imagination
Independent
Brilliantly funny . . . His relentless imagination and his affection for his characters are contagious and irresistible
New York Times
True literary comic genius
Sunday Express
Forget all the rules of time, space and reality; just sit back and enjoy the adventure
Telegraph
Sheer inventiveness, wit, complexity, erudition, unexpectedness and originality
The Times
Reading 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
Fforde'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
Fuelled 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
A serious minded comedy
Mail on Sunday
A political satire cloaked in Fforde's trademark bizarre whimsy, the novel reads like a crazed cross between Watership Down and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Guardian
It's huge fun too, with all the inventive wordplay, impeccable worldbuilding and fiendish plotting that Fforde's "Constant Readers" have come to expect.
SFX
Jasper Fforde's most chilling and realistic book yet
Guardian
The 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
Jasper 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
An astonishingly well-crafted work of social and political satire
Kirkus Reviews
Lovely little satire...wonderfully imaginative and very funny.
Spectator