The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (2001)
 Read: September 2010

Our Eid holiday at the beach means I can get through a good few books and this is next on the list. We found this in a charity shop this summer and we'd never heard of the book or author before but the write up on the back looked good. It reminded me of the blurb for Aberystwyth Mon Amore so we thought we'd give it a go.

And it is sort of like Aberystwth Mon Amore, except instead of tongue-in-cheek crime it's crimes against literature. In this parallel universe of the 1980's everyone is literature obsessed and the story shows us that you can actually get inside a good book.

It's a very entertaining novel - and I don't always enjoy my fiction, but this really takes me. I think it's because I have to think about it; trying to remember the story of Jane Eyre and other classics helps understanding where the plot is going, but I' also engaged by figuring out how this parallel world works; Special Ops, Tuesday Next etc.

I've just seen that Fforde now has a series of Tuesday Next novels, so I'll def keep my eye out for them when back in the UK. Scotty hasn't read this yet - coz it's already been lent out!!