British novelist Jasper Fforde’s new novel is a sequel to a book he wrote in 2009.
When I said I’d be going to Aberystwyth, everyone told me to bring a raincoat and, perhaps, an umbrella for good measure. And yet, when I met Jasper Fforde at a clifftop cafe and he handed me a book I’d been waiting 14 years to read, the sun was beaming down and the Welsh seaside was clear and bright and sparkling as far as my eyes could see.
“Massively,” he replies immediately. “My dad was very highly regarded … he had a very impressive career and he was essentially the big intellectual high-flyer within his family, and there was a lot of pressure on us all to succeed.” Fforde has two elder brothers and a younger sister, and he explains how his educational trajectory had all been mapped out early on starting with a feeder school and ending at Oxford.
After deciding to turn his hand to writing, Fforde spent 12 years having his manuscripts rejected before the publication ofin 2001 allowed him to become an author full-time. The dedication at the front of his first novel reads: “For my father … Who never knew I was to be published but would have been most proud nonetheless – and not a little surprised.”
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