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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next) Book

Pirouetting on the boundaries between sci-fi, the crime thriller and intertextual whimsy, Jasper Fforde's outrageous The Eyre Affairputs you on the wrong footing even on its dedication page, which proudly announces that the book conforms to Crimean War economy standard. Fforde's heroine, Thursday Next, lives in a world where time and reality are endlessly mutable--someone has ensured that the Crimean War never ended for example--a world policed by men like her disgraced father, whose name has been edited out of existence. She herself polices text--against men like the Moriarty-like Acheron Styx, whose current scam is to hold the minor characters of Dickens' novels to ransom, entering the manuscript and abducting them for execution and extinction one by one. When that caper goes sour, Styx moves on to the nation's most beloved novel--an oddly truncated version of Jane Eyre--and kidnaps its heroine. The phlegmatic and resourceful Thursday pursues Acheron across the border into a Leninist Wales and further to Mr Rochester's Thornfield Hall, where both books find their climax on the roof amid flames. Fforde is endlessly inventive: his heroine's utter unconcern about the strangeness of the world she inhabits keeps the reader perpetually double-taking as minor certainties of history, literature and cuisine go soggy in the corner of our eye. The audacity of the premise and its working out provides sudden leaps of understanding, many of them accompanied by wild fits of the giggles. This is a peculiarly promising first novel. --Roz Kaveney Read More

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  • Amazon

    'The Eyre Affair' is a novel.

  • Foyles

    The first book in the phenomenally successful Thursday Next series, from Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde. Meet Thursday Next, literary detective without equal, fear or boyfriend. There is another 1985, where London's criminal gangs have moved into the lucrative literary market, and Thursday Next is on the trail of the new crime wave's MR Big. Acheron Hades has been kidnapping certain characters from works of fiction and holding them to ransom. Jane Eyre is gone. Missing. Thursday sets out to find a way into the book to repair the damage. But solving crimes against literature isn't easy when you also have to find time to halt the Crimean War, persuade the man you love to marry you, and figure out who really wrote Shakespeare's plays. Perhaps today just isn't going to be Thursday's day. Join her on a truly breathtaking adventure, and find out for yourself. Fiction will never be the same again...

  • Play

    There is another 1985 somewhere in the could-have-been where the Crimean war still rages dodos are regenerated in home-cloning kits and everyone is deeply disappointed by the ending of 'Jane Eyre'. In this world there are no jet-liners or computers but there are policemen who can travel across time a Welsh republic a great interest in all things literary - and a woman called Thursday Next. In this utterly original and wonderfully funny first novel Fforde has created a fiesty loveable heroine and a plot of such richness and ingenuity that it will take your breath away.

  • TheBookPeople

    There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where the Crimean war still rages, dodos are regenerated in home-cloning kits and everyone is deeply disappointed by the ending of 'Jane Eyre'. In this world there are no jet-liners or computers, but there are policemen who can travel across time, a Welsh republic, a great interest in all things literary - and a woman called Thursday Next. In this utterly original and wonderfully funny first novel, Fforde has created a fiesty, loveable heroine and a plot of such richness and ingenuity that it will take your breath away.

  • Blackwell

    The Eyre Affair is Jasper Fforde's first novel, and the debut of a fresh and delightfully original new voice. There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where the Crimean war still rages, dodos are regenerated in home...

  • BookDepository

    The Eyre Affair : Paperback : Hodder & Stoughton : 9780340733561 : : 19 Jul 2001 : The Eyre Affair is Jasper Fforde's first novel, and the debut of a fresh and delightfully original new voice.

  • Waterstones

    ''The Eyre Affair'' is a novel.

  • ASDA

    The Eyre Affair is a novel.

  • 034073356X
  • 9780340733561
  • Jasper Fforde
  • 19 July 2001
  • Hodder Paperbacks
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 384
  • 1st Edition
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