Red Side Story: The colourful and instant Sunday Times bestseller (Feb 2024) from the bestselling author of Shades of Grey
Feb 2024 · Hachette UK
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Imagine a world where your position in society depended on what bit of the colour spectrum you could see. This is the world inhabited by Eddie Russett (red, middle-level) and Jane Grey (monochromatic, lowest in society). Eddie and Jane must negotiate the delicate Chromatic politics of society to find out what the 'Something that Happened' actually was, how society got to be this way, and crucially, is there Somewhere Else beyond their borders - and if there is, could there be Someone Else, too, someone whose unseen hand has been guiding the fortunes and misfortunes of the nation for the past 500 years?
It's a tale of a young couple's thirst for justice and answers in an implacably rigid society, where the prisoners are also the guards, and cages of convention bind the citizens to only one way of thinking - or suffer the consequences. . ..
It's a tale of a young couple's thirst for justice and answers in an implacably rigid society, where the prisoners are also the guards, and cages of convention bind the citizens to only one way of thinking - or suffer the consequences. . ..
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Nicki Hutley
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February 29, 2024
it was a long wait after Shades of Grey, but Red Side Story does not disappoint. This is Fforde at his best with incredible imagination, humour, pop culture nods, and wonderful characters. I am very sad the story had to end. Jane and Eddie pick up from the end of SoG, about to be sent to the Green Room. The plot twists and turns as the truth about Chromatacia unfurls to the backdrop of spoon hunting, tin men, the truth of the fallen man, and Jollity Fair. Lovers of SoG will not be disappointed.
Will Cook
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April 10, 2024
Not a single aspect of this book disappointed. Every prediction I made was wrong, delightfully wrong. If you enjoyed Shades of Gray, you will enjoy Red Side Story
Hanita Schlick
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February 28, 2024
excellent follow-up to shades of grey. love all jasper fforde's books, especially the jennifer strange series. no, wait - the thursday next series. no, wait - the nursery series. no, wait... 😉 can't wait to see what he cooks up next.
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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