THE EYRE AFFAIR – JASPER FFORDE

The first book in the phenomenally successful Thursday Next series, from Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde. Always ridiculous, often hilarious … blink and you miss a vital narrative leap. There are shades of Douglas Adams, Lewis Carroll, Clockwork Orange and 1984 . And that s just for starters – Time Out 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 …