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Ferris, JoshuaFforde, JasperFletcher, SusanHe gives him a list of girls he slept withand sets him a task: find his heir!Then we came to the End‘How we hated our coffee mugs! Ourmouse pads, our desk clocks, our dailycalendars, all the contents of our deskdrawers. Even the photos of our lovedones taped to our computer monitorsfor uplift and support turned to cloyingreminders of time served’. Welcome tothe world of Joshua Ferris’s dazzlinglyacute, brilliantly original, agonizinglyfunny novel.The Eyre AffairIn Jasper Fforde’s Great Britain, circa1985, time travel is routine, cloning is areality and literature is taken very, veryseriously. But when someone beginskidnapping characters from works ofliterature and plucks Jane Eyre from thepages of Bronte’s novel, Thursday is facedwith the challenge of her career. Fforde’singenious fantasy, enhanced by a websitethat re-creates the world of the novel,unites intrigue with English literature in adelightfully witty mix.Eve GreenPregnant with her first child, Eve Greenrecalls her mother’s death when shewas eight years old and her struggle tomake sense of her parents’ mysteriousromantic past. She is sent to live with hergrandparents in rural Wales, where shefinds comfort in friendships with Daniel,a quiet farmhand, and Billy, a disabled,reclusive friend of her mother’s.27