England, 2020. There are 1.2 million human-sized rabbits living in the UK. They can walk, talk and drive cars - the result of an Inexplicable Anthropomorphising Event fifty-five years ago. And a family of rabbits is about to move into a cosy little village called Much Hemlock. But no sooner have the rabbits arrived than the villagers decide they must depart ... "Sheer inventiveness, wit, complexity, erudition, unexpectedness and originality". The Times