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The Eyre Affair
Jasper Fforde
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Description for The Eyre Affair
Paperback. The Eyre Affair is Jasper Fforde's first novel, and the debut of a fresh and delightfully original new voice. Series: Thursday Next. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 268.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hodder Paperbacks
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Series
Thursday Next
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340733561
SKU
V9780340733561
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-27
About Jasper Fforde
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.
Reviews for The Eyre Affair
It's 1985 in England, at least on the calendar; the Crimean War is in its hundred-and-thirty-first year; time travel is nothing new; Japanese tourists slip in and out of Victorian novels; and the literary branch of the special police, led gamely by the beguiling Thursday Next, are pursuing Acheron Hades, who has stolen the manuscript of ... Read more