The author of The Eyre Affair delivers the long-awaited sequel to Shades of Grey, as two citizens of a world whose hierarchies are based on the colour spectrum strike out on a quest looking for answers.
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...
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 9781444763669
Number of pages: 384
Weight: 609 g
Dimensions: 236 x 156 x 38 mm
PRAISE FOR RED SIDE STORY:
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 - The Guardian
The jokes are excellent, the pacing breathless and the last line a classic - Observer
Great fun and full of quirky worldbuilding detail - SFX
A fun yarn with . . . a generous dose of rollicking adventure - Reader's Digest
Fforde paints a Terry Pratchett-esque picture laced with laughter - Daily Express
New books by Jasper are always a delight, but this is one I've been chomping at the bit for ever since finishing Shades of Grey some 10 odd years ago. Fortunately, it manages to live up to the anticipation!... More
I have to say I love most things that Fforde writes, this is where you are graded to the colours that you can see, Red, Green, Yellow. Eddie Russett is a Red so middling, he is involved with Jane who is a grey and a... More
I have been waiting a long time for this sequel. I was worried I’d forgotten ‘Shades of Grey’ but as soon as I entered Chromaticia it all came flooding back. Plus, we now know how the world came to be.
With all...
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