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Shades of Grey
- Narrated by: Chris Harper, Jasper Fforde
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
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Summary
Jasper Fforde's cult bestseller, re-recorded to celebrate the publication of the long-awaited sequel RED SIDE STORY.
Imagine a black and white world where colour is a commodity . . . It is a world invented by comic and creative genius - and Number One bestseller - Jasper Fforde.
Hundreds of years in the future, the world is an alarmingly different place.
Life is lived according to The Rulebook and social hierarchy is determined by your perception of colour. Eddie Russett is an above average Red who dreams of moving up the ladder by marriage to Constance Oxblood. Until he is sent to the Outer Fringes where he meets Jane - a lowly Grey with an uncontrollable temper and a desire to see him killed.
For Eddie, it's love at first sight. But his infatuation will lead him to discover that all is not as it seems in a world where everything that looks black and white is really shades of grey ...
If George Orwell had tripped over a paint pot or Douglas Adams favoured colour swatches instead of towels, neither of them would have come up with anything as eccentrically brilliant as Shades of Grey.
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'No summaries can do justice to the sheer inventiveness, wit, complexity, erudition, unexpectedness and originality.' The Times
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- Mrs. H. Dexter
- 06-05-24
Jasper Fforde at this best, and really really well read
I love this book, it’s just excellent. And this reading of it, with all the voices, is really wonderful. I’d recommend it heartily!
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- Vick Carter
- 15-06-24
Sublime (pun intended)
I unreservedly recommend this book, it's delicious. I'm going to listen again right now!
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- J Hitch
- 12-01-24
Slow but Interesting
This is quite a different kind of story. It takes quite a while for little things to be explained, but it seems to work. And I expect some things will never be explained properly, and that’s ok in the stories context. There’s enough intrigue to keep you going through the relatively slow paced story. Looking forward to the sequel in February’24.
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- Mrs. M. Phillips
- 06-04-24
it's weirdness
the story was just too weird for me. Well narrated though. I won't be reading the sequel
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