The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel

Meet Thursday Next, literary detective without equal, fear or boyfriend

Jasper Fforde's beloved New York Times bestselling novel introduces literary detective Thursday Next and her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England--from the author of The Constant Rabbit

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400 pages

Average rating: 6.92

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Anonymous
Mar 23, 2024
6/10 stars
3.5 stars!

This was a very...odd book. I can't think of another way to describe it. I did enjoy the book, but it just was really unique. There's not really anything else like it. The world was original and it was a zany adventure through a classic story (Jane Eyre, obviously) with a villain with Kilgrave-like powers and the ability to jump in and out of stories. The first part was a little slow and it really took almost half the book for it to rea...read more
margardenlady
Dec 27, 2023
8/10 stars
Delightful! Full of suspense, wit, quirky characters, imaginative premises and so many lovely winks at English literature. I honestly don't know whether to call this speculative fiction or fantasy. Set in 1985, but a year in which time travel exists and people value and discuss literature. Not the 1985 I remember. At all. But Russia is still trying to take over the world... Anyway our heroine, Thursday Next, researches literary crimes: forger...read more
melbeesue
Oct 16, 2023
10/10 stars
Such a unique book. Loved this start to the series.

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