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Jasper Fforde presents Red Side Story!

Tuesday 13th February 2024
19:00 - 21:00 at Waterstones, York

Jasper Fforde presents Red Side Story!

We’re delighted to welcome the awesome Jasper Fforde, author of the Number One Sunday Times bestseller One of our Thursdays is Missing, and The Last Dragonslayer series, adapted for television by Sky.

Jasper will be in-store presenting, promoting and signing copies of Red Side Story, the follow up to Shades Of Grey. 

N.B. The author will be signing copies of Red Side Story after the evening's presentation and Q&A. 

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Thirteen years after the smash-hit Shades of Grey, Eddie Russett and Jane Grey are about to embark on a new adventure ...
 
Jasper Fforde, the acclaimed SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER, invites you to imagine a world where your position in society depended on what bit of the colour spectrum you could see...

It's the UK, but not as we know it: civilisation has rebuilt after an unspoken 'Something that Happened' five hundred years before. Society is now colour-based, the strict levels of hierarchy dictated by the colours you can see. From the economy to the health service, the shadowy National Colour reign supreme.

Out on the fringes of Red Sector West, Eddie Russett and Jane Grey have discovered that all is not fair within their cosy environment, and currently face trumped up charges for rule-breaking that will see them die of the fatally soporific tones within the Green Room.

Negotiating the narrow boundaries of the Rules within their society, Jane and Edward must find out the truth of their world: What is it, where is it and is there a safe place beyond their borders where they can escape to. As they unpeel the lies that cloak their existence they come to the worrying conclusion that they may not be alone: There might be a Somewhere Else beyond the sea, and more, Someone Else living there - observing them all, purposefully unseen.

Red Side Story delves into the strictures of a society imposed on itself by itself, immovable dogma and the spirit of humans trying to love, survive and make sense of a world that makes no sense at all. Only it does, of course - you just have to look harder and forget everything you've ever been told.
York Waterstones, York
Tuesday 13th February 2024
19:00 - 21:00

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