{"product_id":"shades-of-grey-9780340963050","title":"Shades of Grey","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"+1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eImagine a black and white world where colour is a commodity . . .\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHundreds of years in the future, after the Something that Happened, the world is an alarmingly different place.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLife is lived according to The Rulebook \u003c\/b\u003eand social hierarchy is determined by your perception of colour. Eddie Russett is an above average Red who dreams of moving up the ladder by marriage to Constance Oxblood. Until \u003cb\u003ehe is sent to the Outer Fringes \u003c\/b\u003ewhere he meets Jane - a lowly Grey with an uncontrollable temper and a desire to see him killed. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor Eddie, \u003cb\u003eit''s love at first sight. \u003c\/b\u003eBut his infatuation will lead him to discover that all is not as it seems in a world where \u003cb\u003eeverything that looks black and white is really shades of grey ...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf George Orwell had tripped over a paint pot or Douglas Adams favoured colour swatches instead of towels, neither of them would have come up with anything as eccentrically brilliant as \u003ci\u003eShades of Grey\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFull of brilliantly inventive wordplay and quirky fabrications * \u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eThis colour-coded world of black-and-white regulations and heirachies is created with spry invention and wit * \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e'Fans of the late Douglas Adams or, even, Monty Python, will feel at home with Fforde' * \u003ci\u003eHerald\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eSHADES OF GREY has something of a flavour of Terry Gilliam's Brazil. . .but the novel is much gentler than Gilliam's savage madcappery, and Fforde's world is more old-fashioned public school than bureaucratic nightmare * \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eFull of colourful characters and amusingly bizarre plot twists. . . SHADES OF GREY is a clever and enjoyable read * \u003ci\u003eSFX Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eThere are distinct shades of Orwell's 1984 * \u003ci\u003eDaily Express\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eA brilliantly written book- full of witticisms, wordplay and puns * \u003ci\u003eNews Of The World\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e'Fforde's books are more than an ingenious idea. They are written with buoyant zest and are tautly plotted . . . and are embellished with the rich details of a Dickens or Pratchett' * \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e'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' * \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e *","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884009337175,"sku":"9780340963050","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shades-of-grey-9780340963050","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}