I used the time to get up to date with some reading, filing, mending the car, and also – because of the new legislation – to register Pickwick as a pet rather than a wild dodo. I tried to call him (Tamworth) at the beginning of the third week but was put through to a trained denialist who flatly refused to admit that Tamworth or SO-5 even existed. The fact that time travel is common place and it is possible to travel ‘into a book’.Ī loveably loyal, flawed and feisty heroine named Thursday Next, a SpecOp-27 (Literary Detective Division of Special Operations) with a genetically flawed dodo as a pet. The wit, wordplay and satire on display as Jasper Fforde develops and then consistently deploys an alternate history in which appreciation of literature is high in the social conscience and something all the popular people are doing. What is so great about The Eyre Affair? Why has Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next series achieved almost cult-like status? The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde is wacky, zany and addictive – candy in a book. After having read all the rave reviews and The Eyre Affairbeing billed as ‘a book for book lovers’ I had high expectations. It took me far too long to get around to reading my first Jasper Fforde novel, the first in his Thursday Next Literary Detective Series. Disclosure: If you click a link in this post and make a purchase, I may earn a small commission.
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