{"product_id":"2026100008957-secondhand-shades-of-grey-signed","title":"Shades Of Grey (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: Limited Numbered and Signed Edition - No. 839 of a 1,000 copies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Slipcase: Good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Light handling wear on the slipcase and boards. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a world where social hierarchy is determined entirely by one's ability to perceive colour, Eddie Russett is a young man of middling status whose life is upended when a routine reassignment to the backwater village of Vermillion sets him on a collision course with forbidden knowledge, a rebellious Grey named Jane, and the terrifying secrets underpinning his rigidly ordered society. Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron is a masterwork of speculative dystopian fiction — part satirical comedy of manners, part unsettling thriller — that uses its brilliantly conceived chromatic caste system to skewer the absurdities of class, conformity, and institutional control.\n\nJasper Fforde, celebrated for his genre-bending wit and his ability to construct labyrinthine yet internally consistent fictional worlds, here presents his most ambitious and darkly comedic universe to date. The novel layers biting social commentary beneath a veneer of whimsical bureaucratic nonsense, drawing comparisons to Huxley's Brave New World while retaining Fforde's unmistakably playful voice. Beneath every cheerful rule and colour-coded regulation lurks a deeper, more sinister truth — and the further Eddie looks, the more the perfectly painted world around him begins to crack.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49336813781211,"sku":"2026100008957-SECONDHAND","price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/1a6546af-0865-4b82-86af-e51b79714fb3.png?v=1789958564","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100008957-secondhand-shades-of-grey-signed","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}