https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/18/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? 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 bunks – but the core aspects of society remain, depressingly, much the same.

If this all sounds a bit outlandish and surreal it might come as a surprise to learn that The Constant Rabbit is Jasper Fforde’s most chilling and realistic book yet.