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The Eyre Affair is a perfect read for those summer times that are more frustrating than relaxing – a great escape and a grand adventure.The only thing I love more than books are books about other books. Whether turning a page or pushing a button, the result is the same: an engrossing tale takes me away from the drab skies and public transport chaos of British summertime, transporting me to live temporarily inside the world of the story. Reading and re-reading it over two separate summers, I found myself lost in the story whatever format it lived in.

The Eyre Affair takes that feeling, the moment you lose the sense of yourself and become engrossed in the story, and creates high adventure and wild drama around the porous boundaries between fiction and real life. Reading a truly good book, the page opens like a trapdoor and you simply fall through. The adventure takes her through time, space and literature, as she discovers an unusual talent for actually entering the world of books, and eventually infiltrates Jane Eyre itself in order to save its central characters. It's a skewed, incongruous world, with crucial and often genuinely funny differences from the real one.Ī particularly tricky case puts Thursday in the position of policing text itself, as she must prevent villainous Acheron Hades from kidnapping vital characters from literary classics. But The Eyre Affair is one of very few books that's perfectly appropriate for the medium, taking as its theme the ability to be transported by literature into innumerable other worlds.įforde's heroine Thursday Next works as a literary detective, tracking down forgeries and unauthorised works in a world far more obsessed with literature than our own – though perhaps only slightly more concerned with piracy, now that we're in the age of digital publishing. Perhaps it's peculiar that when presented with so many new options I turned to an old favourite as my first Kindle book.