A Life in SpecOps by Thursday Next
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Author: Thursday Next
Publisher: Not known
Source book: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (Thursday Next #1)
Another autobiography about the exciting adventures of the fictional Thursday Next. Or it might be the first, since it features in Jasper Fforde’s first book about Thursday. And she certainly has plenty to write about.
SpecOps, or Special Operations, has numerous divisions which deal with everything from murder to vampires. Each division has a different number, and apparently every division despises any one with a different number.
In A Life in SpecOps Thursday relates how she had encountered Edward Rochester (see Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë) as a school girl, when her aunt and uncle took her to visit Haworth House in Yorkshire. A Japanese tourist (it can only have been Mrs Nakajima) read a passage from Jane Eyre aloud, and Thursday found herself mysteriously transported to the country lane where Jane first meets Rochester. Thursday is almost trampled by Rochester’s horse, which not unnaturally was not expecting her, after all she is not a character in the book.
Thursday also writes about visiting Thornfield Hall, and altering the unsatisfactory original ending of the book by calling “Jane, Jane” outside Jane’s window thus ensuring that she doesn’t marry the very wet St. John Rivers, but her beloved Edward. Apparently fans of the book were delighted, and members of the Brontë Society soon got used to the new ending (that’s the ending us reals were brought up with).
Thursday’s SpecOps partner Bowden Cable also writes a memoir Journal of a LiteraTec.
Also mentioned, an alternative version of Macbeth by a certain Dr Müller, called Macbeth: No More Mr Nice Guy.
A Life in SpecOps also features in Lost in a Good Book, which includes extracts about urban legends and the Toad News Network.
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