Michaela Kolofsky

And it's described beautifully by Doc, by Connie's husband at one point in the book.

And he says, you know, the goal for some people might be to leave the world a little bit better than when they found it.

Or for some people, it might be to see all the Die Hard movies.

You know, he's just they've got they're very, very funny.

The whole book is peppered with these wonderful pop culture references.

Were there particular pop culture references that you loved, Chris?

I think he's become a bit of a pop culture kind of star again because he's been sort of – there's a fabulous thing called Rickrolling where you start watching a film clip and then halfway through they switch it to Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up.

Some of my favourite references were I think Connie the Rabbit had a small part in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction but it was cut out.

Right.

So they talk about that.

And she herself also refers to, you know, there's a library scene very early in the book, the first scene where we meet Connie and Peter and

And she's referring to Point Break with Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze.

And it's at that moment where it is absurd.

You think I'm reading a book about a rabbit referring to a Patrick Swayze film.

This is something different, you know.

But I mean, I also wondered, you know, do you think the book is also prompting us to think more deeply about our, not just our human to human relationships, how we view people who are different from us, but our human to other species relationships?

I should say as well, the book's got, it's got footnotes all the way through it and it becomes clearer as we get toward the end of the book why.

But each short chapter begins with a sort of a tidbit of information about rabbits.

At the top of page 28, it says, rabbits always had trouble differentiating between humans.

Hair colour, skin colour, clothes, gait, jewellery and voice all helped.