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Annotation "The Eyre Affair" is a novel. Publisher Description 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. The Nile Staff Review The Eyre Affair is a mix of science fiction, literary crime thriller and comedy. It is 1985, England and Russia are still fighting the Crimean War, Wales is a socialist republic, home genetic engineering kits have made the dodo a family pet, and Goliath Corporation, “For all you'll ever need.” sells everything to everyone. The story centres around literary detective Thursday Next as she pursues evil supervillain Acheron Hades to recover a manuscript for Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit. This leads to the death of her partner during Hades' capture and her reassignment to her home town of Swindon, a meeting with her uncle Mycroft Next, whose invention of the 'Prose Portal' allows travel into the world of fiction. Thursday makes the mistake of crossing Goliath who want the new invention, but there is also the matter of an escaped Acheron Hades and some rather odd changes to 'Jane Eyre'. This is the first in a series of (so far) 5 books, although the two Nursery Crime books are set in the same bookworld. While you don't have to be particularly well read to get the jokes (I certainly haven't read many of the books featured through the series) there are plenty of references that will be missed without at least an awareness of the stories and their characters. It's full of a lot of ideas, some that work, some that don't, some that are just weird (Thursday's time traveling and technically non-existant father who makes frequent timely appearances) but the various strands come together at the end to make sense, more or less. The series as a whole is well worth the read, but start at the beginning and it keeps getting better. Matthew@ The Nile Read the rest of Matthew 's reviews here. Author Biography Jasper Fforde's first novel was publishing to astonishing critical and commercial success in 2001. Since then he has written 3 other Thursday next novels, and is working on the first in a new series of crime novels. Jasper lives near Hay-on-Wye and flies Tiger Moth aeroplanes as relaxation. |
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