The Eyre Affair

by Jasper Fforde

eBook, 300 pages

English language

Published April 30, 2009 by Hodder & Stoughton.

ISBN:: 978-1-84456-919-9

(12 reviews)

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 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...

9 editions

Paul Oldham reviewed The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (Thursday Next, #1)

Make sure you read chapter 13

4 stars

Content warning Lots of hints at spoilers. Possibly you should read the review after the book.

This is a clever and very silly book which I've just finished re-reading and got more out of it this time (not least chapter 13). So many bits of business like the names, especially of minor characters like Paige's surname or Mr Bight's nationality.

Lots more of this to come over the next few books too ...

Arbieroo reviewed The Eyre affair by Jasper Fforde

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I struggled with this book initially, probably for the first third, in fact, and I was not completely won over until the final third. The main reason for this was the gap between my prior expectations and the reality of the book. All I really knew about it was that characters could enter and leave works of fiction and I expected that from the outset. I didn’t get it – not at the beginning. So, despite the mad, mad world the author had created I was looking for something that doesn’t turn up until later on.

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