Early Riser: The standalone novel from the Number One bestselling author - Softcover

Fforde, Jasper

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1444763601 ISBN 13: 9781444763607

Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks, 2019

Synopsis

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'Fforde pours his brilliant imagination into every corner of this world' Daily Mail
'Fforde keeps the puns and neologisms coming thick and fast while exploring every facet of his novel's intriguing premise' Financial Times

Every Winter, the human population hibernates.

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

Well, not quite.

Your name is Charlie Worthing and it's your first season with the Winter Consuls, the committed but mildly unhinged group of misfits who are responsible for ensuring the hibernatory safe passage of the sleeping masses.

You are investigating an outbreak of viral dreams which you dismiss as nonsense; nothing more than a quirky artefact borne 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 whose thirst for human flesh can only be satisfied by comfort food, and sidestep the increasingly less-than-mythical WinterVolk.

But so long as you remember to wrap up warmly, you'll be fine.

Praise for Jasper Fforde:

'Forget all the rules of time, space and reality; just sit back and enjoy the adventure' Telegraph

'True literary comic genius' Sunday Express

'Ingenious' Terry Pratchett

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Review:

Praise for Early Riser (:)

Fforde pours his brilliant imagination into every corner of this world (Daily Mail)

Endlessly imaginative and distinctively quirky, this is entertaining fun (Mail on Sunday)

The master of the alternative universe (Press Association)

It's been worth the wait (Oxford Mail)

Make(s) us look at our world anew (SFX Magazine)

the thriller aspect is propulsive (Times)

Jasper Fforde lunacy at its best (Daily Express)

Fans of Jasper Fforde's unique blend of comic
dystopia and quirky British cosiness will not be
disappointed with his first novel in six years

(Guardian)

a zany send-up of all things British (Guardian)

Book Description:

Jasper Fforde's first standalone novel - full of the imagination, wit and intelligence that has made Fforde a Number One bestseller.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1444763601
• ISBN 13: 9781444763607
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416