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The
Eyre Affair
Written
by Jasper Fforde
Reviewed by Marian Powell
Is Thursday Next really an appropriate name for the main character
of a novel? If the novel is a totally insane romp through time,
history and literature, it is.
Thursday Next is a Literary Detective in a world where time travel
is commonplace and so are criminals who make use of it. Someone
is kidnapping characters out of books and threatening to rewrite
them. That's bad enough when it's a minor character, but then
Jane Eyre gets stolen out of the book by that name which means
the book will never be written if Thursday doesn't rescue her.
The Eyre Affair will make your head spin as you attempt to keep
up with chases, murders and endless attempts to alter history.
Buried in all the fun is a serious question. If time travel were
commonplace, wouldn't you be tempted to go alter a historical
event to make it happen the way you feel it should have happened?
Now imagine a world with thousands of people altering history
and other thousands trying to change it back and you have the
world of The Eyre Affair.
If you love The Hitchhiker's Guide or Terry Pratchett's Discworld
series, you'll probably love this one. If you hated those books,
you probably should avoid The Eyre Affair.
It's the first book in a series, incidentally. The second book
is titled Lost in a Good Book and the third one is The Well of
Lost Plots.
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