In the last section of The Eyre Affair, Jane Eyre is kidnapped out of her own novel, and the narrative stops entirely, since it’s told in first person. >It’s complicated to end a novel about what would happen if the line between fiction and reality became blurred, so Jasper Fforde’s The Eyre Affair provides not only a conclusion, but also a self-contained sequel to his own novel and the novel we know as Jane Eyre, in the process of telling the story of how it became the novel we know from the novel that Thursday once knew, the one with the “flawed” ending in which Jane goes off with her cousin St.
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