Fforde sf novel, not Prefect

I read my first Jasper Fforde novel this week, and I quite liked it. It was Fforde's first book about the Special Operations officier Thursday Next. Sounds sort of James Bond-y, except that Next lives in a world that's not quite like this one. It's set in England, but they are still at war with Russia over the Crimea, and Wales is an independent country on not completely friendly terms with England.

Then there are the things that Next is involved in. She's a LiteraTec, which is one of the lower (in prestige) or higher (in number at 27) levels of SpecOps, or SO. However, Next is recruited to work at a lower level, S0-5, for a special assignment, which goes bad, leading to the deaths of two fellow agents.

Taking much of the blame for the botched job, Next moves from London to her hometown of Swindon for another S0-27 job, but with thoughts of revenging her fallen colleagues on her mind.

However, doing so necessiates blurring the boundaries of fact and fiction, which is why the book is called The Eyre Affair. Next penetrates the novel Jane Eyre, literally, to save its heroine.

It's quite a fun read, so I'm looking to read Fforde's other books in this series.