Jasper Fforde's first standalone novel - full of the imagination, wit and intelligence that has made Fforde a Number One bestseller.
Praise for Early RiserFforde
pours his brilliant imagination into every corner of this worldEndlessly imaginative and distinctively quirky, this is entertaining fun
Brilliantly funny . . . His relentless imagination and his affection for his characters are
contagious and irresistibleThe
master of the alternative universeIt's been
worth the waitMake(s) us look at our world anewthe
thriller aspect is propulsiveJasper Fforde
lunacy at its bestFans of Jasper Fforde's unique blend of comic
dystopia and quirky British cosiness will not be
disappointed with his first novel in six years
a
zany send-up of all things British
Praise for Jasper FfordeReading a Fforde novel feels like
taking off on a magic carpet, only to be picked up by another and another and taken on new flights of fantasy . . . When the plot is thundering along, peppered with jokes, lively dialogue and silly names . . . you just sit back and enjoy the ride.
Fans of the late
Douglas Adams, or, even,
Monty Python, will feel at home with Fforde
Forget all the rules of time, space and reality; just sit back and
enjoy the adventure.'Fforde's books are more than just an ingenious idea. They are written with
buoyant zest and are tautly plotted. They have empathetic heroes and heroines who nearly make terrible mistakes and suitably dastardly villains who do. They also have more twists and turns than Christie, and are embellished with the rich details of Dickens or Pratchett
No summaries can do justice to the
sheer inventiveness, wit, complexity, erudition, unexpectedness and originality of the works, nor to their vast repertoire of intricate wordplay and puns
I love to dive into Jasper Fforde's books. They're
wildly imaginative but he makes you believe every word. Where else can you encounter a ditzy dodo, a deadly chimera and a straight-as-an-arrow detective investigating what really happened to Humpty Dumpty? Great stuff.
Fforde
keeps the puns and neologisms coming thick and fast while exploring every facet of his novel's intriguing premiseJasper Fforde spent twenty years in the film business before debuting on the New York Times bestseller list with The Eyre Affair in 2001. Since then he has written another fifteen novels, including the Number One Sunday Times bestseller One of our Thursdays is Missing, and the Last Dragonslayer series, adapted for television by Sky. Fforde lives and works in his adopted nation of Wales. Visit Jasper's website, www.jasperfforde.com, find him on Facebook, www.facebook.com/jasperffordebooks, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/jasperfforde.