Reality can exist in many guises, and rather than setting stories on a disc that that travels though space on the back of a giant turtle it is possible to set a story twenty years ago, just make a few changes like having the Crimean War go on for more than 150 years, and create a heroine who can travel into novels - the Book World - as part of a police force to maintain narrative integrity within fiction.
Welcome to the world of Swindon in an alternative 1985 where Thursday Next has to rescue Jane Eyre (that is the real, i.e. fictional, Jane Eyre) after she is kidnaped and held for ransom.
The book is The Eyre Affair, it was published in 2001 and I came to it late, but since then I've read everything that Jasper Fforde has written.
The quote in the title of this post is by Terry Pratchett and it appears on the jacket of The Eyre Affair (and others).
Welcome to the world of Swindon in an alternative 1985 where Thursday Next has to rescue Jane Eyre (that is the real, i.e. fictional, Jane Eyre) after she is kidnaped and held for ransom.
The book is The Eyre Affair, it was published in 2001 and I came to it late, but since then I've read everything that Jasper Fforde has written.
The quote in the title of this post is by Terry Pratchett and it appears on the jacket of The Eyre Affair (and others).
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