The Eyre Affair
New favorite book, by Jasper Fforde (the first “F” is silent). From a Salon review:
“Thursday's job is to track down stolen original manuscripts and spot forgeries, but in “The Eyre Affair” she gets recruited by another department in SpecOps, which is trying to capture the world's Third Most Wanted criminal, Acheron Hades. It turns out Thursday is one of the few people able to resist the hypnotic effect of Hades' infernally persuasive voice. Hades steals a device that allows people to enter into literary works, and he begins kidnapping characters from great novels, starting with a minor figure from “Martin Chuzzlewit” and moving on to Jane Eyre.”
It's escapist literary detective fiction. Beach reading for people who don't really want to be sitting on a beach.
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