This genre-bending, razor-sharp satire imagines an alternate universe in which an unexplained "mass anthropomorphizing event" in the mid-1960s results in a new species: rabbits of human size, intelligence, and awareness. Five decades later, with the United Kingdom still largely hostile to the rabbit community, one small English village is turned upside down by the arrival of their first-ever rabbit residents. Told through the eyes of a human villager who has long tried to stay "neutral" in rabbit matters, the story raises questions about systemic oppression, complicity, and redemption. Fans of Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series will enjoy seeing him revisit some of his favorite themes with passion, eloquence, and humor to spare as he effortlessly immerses readers in this absurdly familiar (familiarly absurd?) world.Publisher's description: England, 2022. There are 1.2 million human-size rabbits living in the UK. They can walk, talk, drive cars, and they like to read Voltaire, the result of an Inexplicable Anthropomorphizing Event fifty-five years before. A 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 Best Kept Village awards. 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. But Mrs Constance Rabbit is made of sterner stuff, and her and her family decide they are to stay.