The Eyre Affair, by English author Jasper Fforde, was first published in 2001. It takes place in an alternative 1985, where literary detective Thursday Next pursues a master criminal through the world of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre. 

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Episode Links

• “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë
• “The Eyre Affair” by Jaspar Fforde
• “Charge of the Light Brigade” poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit” by Charles Dickens
• “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" poem by WIlliam Wordsworth
• The Cranberries - Daffodil Lament (Lyric Video)

Reading

• Jennie – “Love, Comment, Subscribe,” by Cathy Yardley
• Pete – “Young Bucks: Killing the Business” by Matt and Nick Jackson

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