Early Riser: The brilliantly funny novel from the Number One bestselling author of Shades of Grey
Aug 2018 · Hachette UK
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*** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER *** called 'Ingenious' by Terry Pratchett.
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.
When the dreams start to kill people, it's unsettling.
When you get the dreams too, it's weird.
When they start to come true, you begin to doubt your sanity.
But teasing truth from Winter is never easy: You have to avoid the Villains and their penchant for murder, kidnapping and stamp collecting, ensure you aren't eaten by Nightwalkers whose thirst for human flesh can only be satisfied by comfort food, and sidestep the increasingly less-than-mythical WinterVolk.
But so long as you remember to wrap up warmly, you'll be fine.
'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
'Forget all the rules of time, space and reality; just sit back and enjoy the adventure' Telegraph
'True literary comic genius' Sunday Express
* Pre-order RED SIDE STORY, the follow up to the classic SHADES OF GREY, NOW! *
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.
When the dreams start to kill people, it's unsettling.
When you get the dreams too, it's weird.
When they start to come true, you begin to doubt your sanity.
But teasing truth from Winter is never easy: You have to avoid the Villains and their penchant for murder, kidnapping and stamp collecting, ensure you aren't eaten by Nightwalkers whose thirst for human flesh can only be satisfied by comfort food, and sidestep the increasingly less-than-mythical WinterVolk.
But so long as you remember to wrap up warmly, you'll be fine.
'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
'Forget all the rules of time, space and reality; just sit back and enjoy the adventure' Telegraph
'True literary comic genius' Sunday Express
* Pre-order RED SIDE STORY, the follow up to the classic SHADES OF GREY, NOW! *
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4.2
16 reviews
David Cooper
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April 5, 2019
If you have read his "Shades of Grey", then this book is a copy, just set in a different sort of world. But has the same young man, starting in a new place, not fitting in while accidentally uncovering an evil plot, which he works to defeat. But this book doesn't have the interesting or likable characters of Shades of Grey. So, pretty meh.
Marilyne Kubath
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September 25, 2019
Compare to the authors others this is real difficult to follow. Throughly recommend "one of our Thursday is missing" as a fantastic book.
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Andrei Boiarshinov
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July 5, 2019
Marvelous, if a bit on a Wonky side.
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About the author
Jasper 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.
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