FROM THE PUBLISHER
Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. Based on an imaginary world where time and reality bend in the most convincing and original way since Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Eyre Affair is a delightful rabbit hole of a read: once you fall in you may never come back.


England is a virtual police state where someone has begun kidnapping characters from works of literature. When this madman plucks Jane Eyre from the pages of Bronte's novel, Thursday Next -- our resourceful heroine and renowned Special Operative in literary detection -- faces the challenge of her career. She must track down the world's Third Most Wanted criminal and enter the novel herself to avert a heinous act of literary homicide.

This is a trade paperback, with a different cover than the one pictured.

Currently reading, and reserved for JenLuvsBooks who accepted it on a relay.

Well, I read as far as Chapter 8 (page 77) when I decided this book was just not holding my interest. I thought there were some clever, funny parts, but I was never one for mysteries, no matter how unique. I'm disappointed, because it seems like a booklover's kind of book, and I really wanted to like it!

I'm sending it out in tomorrow's mail to JenLuvsBooks in CA. Hope you enjoy it, Jen!

Thank you Time-Traveler. I'll journal when I get a chance to read it.

I liked the premise of the book but couldn't get into it.

I'm mailing it out to a member of PBS.