There is another 1985 somewhere in the could-have-been where the Crimean war still rages dodos are regenerated in home-cloning kits & everyone is deeply disappointed by the ending of ' Jane Eyre'. In this world there are no jet-liners or computers but there are policemen who can travel across time a Welsh republic a great interest in all things literary
- & a woman called Thursday Next. In this utterly original & wonderfully funny first novel Fforde has created a fiesty loveable heroine & a plot of such richness & ingenuity that it will take your breath away.