Name: Shades of Grey By Jasper Fforde
SKU: 9780340963050
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Shades of Grey Summary

Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde

Imagine a black and white world where colour is a commodity . . .

Hundreds of years in the future, after the Something that Happened, the world is an alarmingly different place.

Life is lived according to The Rulebook and social hierarchy is determined by your perception of colour. Eddie Russett is an above average Red who dreams of moving up the ladder by marriage to Constance Oxblood. Until he is sent to the Outer Fringes where he meets Jane - a lowly Grey with an uncontrollable temper and a desire to see him killed.

For Eddie, it's love at first sight. But his infatuation will lead him to discover that all is not as it seems in a world where everything that looks black and white is really shades of grey ...

If George Orwell had tripped over a paint pot or Douglas Adams favoured colour swatches instead of towels, neither of them would have come up with anything as eccentrically brilliant as Shades of Grey.

Shades of Grey Reviews

Full of brilliantly inventive wordplay and quirky fabrications * Mail on Sunday *
This colour-coded world of black-and-white regulations and heirachies is created with spry invention and wit * Daily Mail *
'Fans of the late Douglas Adams or, even, Monty Python, will feel at home with Fforde' * Herald *
SHADES OF GREY has something of a flavour of Terry Gilliam's Brazil. . .but the novel is much gentler than Gilliam's savage madcappery, and Fforde's world is more old-fashioned public school than bureaucratic nightmare * Guardian *
Full of colourful characters and amusingly bizarre plot twists. . . SHADES OF GREY is a clever and enjoyable read * SFX Magazine *
There are distinct shades of Orwell's 1984 * Daily Express *
A brilliantly written book- full of witticisms, wordplay and puns * News Of The World *
'Fforde's books are more than an ingenious idea. They are written with buoyant zest and are tautly plotted . . . and are embellished with the rich details of a Dickens or Pratchett' * Independent *
'No summaries can do justice to the sheer inventiveness, wit, complexity, erudition, unexpectedness and originality of the works, nor to their vast repertoire of intricate wordplay and puns' * The Times *

About Jasper Fforde

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 twelve 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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Sku

GOR002498117

ISBN 13

9780340963050

ISBN 10

0340963050

Title

Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde

Author

Jasper Fforde

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Hodder & Stoughton

Year published

20110106

Number of pages

448

Prizes

N/A

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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

Note

This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

Shades of Grey Jasper Fforde

Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde

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Shades of Grey Summary

Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde

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