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Red Side Story

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6th February 2024

Price: £29.99

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Selected: Audiobook Downloadable / ISBN-13: 9781444763720

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The long-awaited sequel to Jasper Fforde’s cult bestseller Shades of Grey, set in world where social hierarchy revolves entirely around visual colour.

Imagine a world where your position in society depended on what bit of the colour spectrum you could see. This is the world inhabited by Eddie Russett (red, middle-level) and Jane Grey (monochromatic, lowest in society). Eddie and Jane must negotiate the delicate Chromatic politics of society to find out what the ‘Something that Happened’ actually was, how society got to be this way, and crucially, is there Somewhere Else beyond their borders – and if there is, could there be Someone Else, too, someone whose unseen hand has been guiding the fortunes and misfortunes of the nation for the past 500 years?

It’s a tale of a young couple’s thirst for justice and answers in an implacably rigid society, where the prisoners are also the guards, and cages of convention bind the citizens to only one way of thinking – or suffer the consequences….

(P)2024 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

Reviews

PRAISE FOR RED SIDE STORY:
The Guardian
Cleverly constructed, with engaging characters and lots of good jokes, this sparkling Wizard of Oz-inspired fantasy is . . . one of the quirkiest dystopias ever imagined
Observer
The jokes are excellent, the pacing breathless and the last line a classic
SFX
Great fun and full of quirky worldbuilding detail
Reader's Digest
A fun yarn with . . . a generous dose of rollicking adventure
Daily Express
Fforde paints a Terry Pratchett-esque picture laced with laughter