Who on Earth would invent a heroine named Thursday Next? Who would dream up a mass murderer made of biscuit? (Or cake; there is some debate.) Or the Unitary Authority of Warrington Cat? (There was re-zoning in Cheshire.) Or the Well of Lost Plots, the Text Sea, and bookworms that belch ampersands and umlauts when satiated? And just who owns BartMart*? And above all, who would have a surname beginning with two "F"s?
I stumbled on Jasper Fforde's outrageous books a couple of years ago in a panic search for something to read on a plane. Now I would book a flight to Reading JUST to read one.
*QuangTech. (Everybody knows that.)
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