![]() ![]() ![]() Advances in cloning enable people to enjoy previously extinct animals - such as the dodo - as household pets. Cars exist, but prop and jet planes, if invented, were never popularized air travel is by dirigible. ![]() The Crimean War between England and Russia continues. But this England belongs to a parallel universe that diverged from the one we know sometime during the late 19th century. The Eyre Affair - at least good parts of it - transpires in late-20th-century England. While the book's title invokes classic British fiction from more than a century ago, specifically Charlotte Brontë's gothic romance, Jane Eyre, and the classic crime fiction "affairs" related by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, this novel is far less historical than futuristic. Yet this debut novel featuring the coyly named detective Thursday Next is very much its own book - delightfully playful, while commanding serious attention.įforde grafts elements of science fiction (time travel, mad scientists) onto the plot of a police procedural and delivers his story in the disarmingly chatty first-person narrative style that propelled the diaries of Adrian Mole and Bridget Jones onto the bestseller lists ("so often Mr. Reviews | The Eyre Affair by Jasper FfordeĪ novel about society's relationship to novels, Jasper Fforde 's The Eyre Affair quotes in form and substance from a half-dozen fiction genres. ![]()
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