The Constant Rabbit

First published in Great Britain in 2020 by Hodder & Stoughton

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Copyright © Jasper Fforde 2020

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The quote used in the epigraph here from A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (© Bill Bryson 2003), first published in the UK in 2003 by Doubleday, an imprint of Transworld Publishers.

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