Early Riser by Jasper Fforde

Early Riser by Jasper Fforde

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Early Riser by Jasper Fforde

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A "hilarious" (The Guardian), "blindingly inventive," (The Seattle Times) and "wonderfully weird dystopian thriller" (Shelf Awareness) from the author of The Constant Rabbit and the Thursday Next series

"A cause for celebration . . . Fforde writes witty, chewy sentences, full of morsels, and delivers them deadpan. . . . [His] relentless imagination and his affection for his characters are contagious and irresistible."--The New York Times Book Review

Every Winter, the human population hibernates.

During those bitterly cold four months, the nation is a snow-draped landscape of desolate loneliness, devoid of human activity.

Well, not quite.

Your name is Charlie Worthing and it's your first season with the Winter consuls, the group responsible for ensuring the hibernatory safe passage of the sleeping masses. You are investigating an outbreak of viral dreams, which you dismiss as nothing more than an artefact born of the sleeping mind.
 
When the dreams start to kill people, it's unsettling.
 
When you get the dreams too, it's weird.
 
When they start to come true, you begin to doubt your sanity.
 
But teasing truth from Winter is never easy: You have to avoid the Villains and their penchant for murder, kidnapping, and stamp collecting; ensure you aren't eaten by Nightwalkers; and sidestep the increasingly less-than-mythical Wintervolk.

But so long as you remember to wrap up warmly, you'll be fine.
SKU Unavailable
ISBN 13 9780143111276
ISBN 10 0143111272
Title Early Riser
Author Jasper Fforde
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published 2020-02-11
Number of pages 416
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.