{"product_id":"early-riser-9781473650220","title":"Early Riser","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEarly Riser\u003c\/strong\u003e by Jasper Fforde. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781473650220.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER\n\n\n\n\n\nEvery Winter, the human population hibernates.\n\nDuring those bitterly cold four months, the nation is a snow-draped landscape of desolate loneliness and devoid of human activity.\n\nWell, not quite.\nYour name is Charlie Worthing and its your first season with the Winter Consuls, the committed but mildly unhinged group of misfits who are responsible for ensuring the hibernatory safe passage of the sleeping masses.\nYou are investigating an outbreak of viral dreams which you dismiss as nonsense; nothing more than a quirky artefact borne of the sleeping mind.\nWhen the dreams start to kill people, its unsettling.\nWhen you get the dreams too, its weird.\nWhen they start to come true, you begin to doubt your sanity.\nBut teasing truth from Winter is never easy: You have to avoid the Villains and their penchant for murder, kidnapping and stamp collecting, ensure you arent eaten by Nightwalkers whose thirst for human flesh can only be satisfied by comfort food, and sidestep the increasingly less-than-mythical WinterVolk.\nBut so long as you remember to wrap up warmly, youll be fine.\nPraise for Jasper Fforde:\nForget all the rules of time, space and reality; just sit back and enjoy the adventure Telegraph\nTrue literary comic genius Sunday Express\nIngenious Terry Pratchett\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44428960038965,"sku":"ByrdShop_1473650224","price":44.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781473650220_e8f6d069-71b8-45cb-8548-e16e2d8f0ffe.jpg?v=1781176082","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/early-riser-9781473650220","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}