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Book SynopsisTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
''Fforde pours his brilliant imagination into every corner of this world'' Daily Mail
''Fforde keeps the puns and neologisms coming thick and fast while exploring every facet of his novel''s intriguing premise'' Financial Times
Every Winter, the human population hibernates.
During those bitterly cold four months, the nation is a snow-draped landscape of desolate loneliness, and devoid of human activity.
Well, not quite.
Your name is Charlie Worthing and it''s your first season with the Winter Consuls, the committed but mildly unhinged group of misfits who are responsible for ensuring the hibernatory safe passage of the sleeping masses.
You are investigating an outbreak of viral dreams which you dismiss as nonsense; nothing more than a quirky artefact borne of the sleeping mind.
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Praise for Early Riser * : *
Fforde pours his brilliant imagination into every corner of this world * Daily Mail *
Endlessly imaginative and distinctively quirky, this is entertaining fun * Mail on Sunday *
Brilliantly funny . . . His relentless imagination and his affection for his characters are contagious and irresistible * New York Times *
The master of the alternative universe * Press Association *
It's been worth the wait * Oxford Mail *
Make(s) us look at our world anew * SFX Magazine *
the thriller aspect is propulsive * Times *
Jasper Fforde lunacy at its best * Daily Express *
Fans of Jasper Fforde's unique blend of comic
dystopia and quirky British cosiness will not be
disappointed with his first novel in six years
* Guardian *
a
zany send-up of all things British * Guardian *
Praise for Jasper Fforde * : *
Reading 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. * Scotsman *
Fans of the late
Douglas Adams, or, even,
Monty Python, will feel at home with Fforde * Herald *
Forget all the rules of time, space and reality; just sit back and
enjoy the adventure. * Telegraph *
'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 * Independent *
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 * The Times *
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. -- David Baldacci
Fforde
keeps the puns and neologisms coming thick and fast while exploring every facet of his novel's intriguing premise * Financial Times *
