How long does it take to read The Eyre Affair?
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, Roxane Azimi takes about 6 hours 54 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Thursday Next
Next: Lost in a Good Book
About 6 hours 54 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2001. 376 pages, about 103,400 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 54 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 19 minutes |
The page count is the median across 32 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In an alternative 1985, England has been locked in a stalemated Crimean War with Russia for over a century, and literary crimes are policed by dedicated agents. Thursday Next, a thirty-six-year-old war veteran, works as one of these literary detectives and lives in London with her pet dodo. She is assigned to help catch Acheron Hades, her former professor turned criminal mastermind with unnatural powers. When a mysterious figure from Jane Eyre appears in her life, Thursday's hunt leads her toward a strange invention that lets people enter works of fiction.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: Books and reading, Thursday Next (Fictitious character), Women detectives, Fiction, Fathers and daughters, Censorship
