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Red Side Story

By: Jasper Fforde
Narrated by: Chris Harper, Jasper Fforde
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About this listen

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....

©2022 Jasper Fforde (P)2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited Absurdist Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Humorous Literature & Fiction Satire Comedy Thought-Provoking

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Fforde did not disappoint (other than the very long wait!). Arguable better than Shades of Grey, and a great broadening of the world he has created.

Everything I waited far far far to long for

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The story is different. That is good.
Good reading pace and expression.
The two together means this audio book flows well

Great book, we'll read

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A truly wonderful story expertly read. Jasper Fforde simply gets better and better- please have a listen and be transported away to a dystopian yet sadly familiar land. Story telling at its best.

Simply Mesmerising

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As soon as I finished shades of grey I loved it but was left with so many questions. This answered many of my questions but left me with so many more. I just hope we get a final book. It was also performed really well and was as good or better than shades of grey.

Definitely worth the wait!

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Wonderful narration and story! I am hoping there will few a 3rd and we don't have to wait so long!

Long awaited 2nd book!

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