The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel
by Jasper Fforde

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Book Review: A parallel world, with witty references, brilliant.
Summary: 5 Stars

Thursday Next, of the title, is our guide to this parallel, or rather non-pareil world, in which history has opted for a more interesting route and forsaken the technological fix in favour of a more cerebral one. She's an 'Operative Grade II (Inspector) for SO-27, the Literary Detective division of the Special Operations Network, which she would admit "is way less flash than it sounds". One of the 30 special departments created to relieve an overworked police force from the special areas of policing required to deal with everything from animal rights and criminal truancy to spatial instability and terrorism, the LiteraTecs specialise in literary crime - people taking liberties with the printed word. The Crimean War is still in its one hundred and thirty first year and the Whigs are calling for a withdrawal of British troops when Tuesday gets mixed up in a major work and gets posted to SpeCops 5 on the trail of an international criminal who can "lie in thought, deed and appearance". With a little help from her dad, who travels the sub-temporal ether waging a one man war on 'morally and historically corrupt bureaucrats' she survives a series of bungled operations in order to get her man, in all senses and probably none at all!

In a society where Baconians are as welcome on your doorstep as Jehovah's Witnesses and there are four thousand John Milton's in the London telephone directory you've got to look after your manuscripts or whole stories could change in the time it takes to fly to Swindon by Airship. When someone uses a prose portal to enter works of literature and murder the original characters somethings got to be done or your books won't be able to sleep safely on their bookshelves! Lock your copy of Jane Eyre safely away and turn your TV to the wall whilst you allow Mr. Fforde (if that's his real name) to unlock your imagination. Enjoy the ride!

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