An astonishing, hotly anticipated new novel from the great literary fantasist and creator of Thursday Next, Jasper Fforde. As long as anyone can remember, society has been ruled by a Colortocracy. From the underground feedpipes that keep the municipal park green to the healing hues viewed to cure illness to a social hierarchy based upon one's limited color perception, society is dominated by color.

Young Eddie Russett has no ambition to be anything other than a loyal drone of the Collective. For Eddie, life looks colorful. But everything changes when he moves with his father, a respected swatchman, to East Carmine.

Part satire, part romance, part revolutionary thriller, this is the new world from the creative and comic genius of Jasper Fforde.