[Rob Stuart]

Watership Down and Out in Paris and London

When a young rabbit called Fiver experiences a terrifying apocalyptic vision of the future he flees his home for Paris where he initially manages to scrape a meagre living as a lapine teacher to French kittens. However, this work soon dries up and fiver, now penniless and starving, is forced into accepting a job as an éplucheur at a local carrot restaurant. He finds the long hours and barbaric conditions there unendurable, so he ups sticks and moves to London where he lives as a 'gentlerabbit of the road', begging scraps of lettuce, moving from one Salvation Army warren to another and falling in for a time with a myxamatosed pavement artist.