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Also by Jasper Fforde:

Red Side Story, May 2024
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The Constant Rabbit, October 2021
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The Constant Rabbit, October 2020
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Early Riser, February 2019
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The Woman Who Died A Lot, October 2012
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One Of Our Thursdays Is Missing, March 2011
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Thursday Next: First Among Sequels, August 2008
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The Fourth Bear, August 2007
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The Big Over Easy, August 2006
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Something Rotten, August 2005
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The Well of Lost Plots, July 2004
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Lost in a Good Book, March 2004
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The Eyre Affair, March 2003
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EARLY RISER
By: Jasper Fforde

Penguin Books
February 2019
On Sale: February 12, 2019
416 pages
ISBN: 0143111272
EAN: 9780143111276
Kindle: B00X61N16K
Trade Size / e-Book
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Humor

An instant New York Times bestseller

The new standalone novel from Jasper Fforde, the bestselling author the Thursday Next series and the forthcoming standalone The Constant Rabbit

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 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 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 the 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.