Before you start reading what I wrote about The Eyre Affair, click that link above and read the subject headings associated with this title in our catalog. Go ahead. I'll wait.
Do you see all the disparate topics there? And do you realize that there could be about a dozen more, including (but not limited to): paranormal fiction, time travel, murder, kidnapping, inventions, extinct animals, police work, veterans, and Shakespeare?
Perhaps taking all of that into account, it becomes apparent why this book is so hard to describe, but I'll try: Set in an alternate-universe 1980s England, Detective Thursday Next hunts down those suspected of high crimes and misdemeanors related to literature. When the original manuscript of a Dickens novel is stolen without any trace of the culprit, Thursday is pulled into the investigation, which involves a demonic criminal bent on wreaking havoc on classic literature, purely for the sport of it, as well as some slimy war profiteers from the Goliath Corporation who wish to exploit an innocent invention by a pottering old man.
That probably makes no sense, but it's a great book, at the beginning of a great series. It's smart, it's silly, it's a bibliophile's dream. I've read it more times than I can count, and I love it more every time.
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