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Lost in a Good Book

By Jasper Fforde

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| eBook | 9781844569205

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Thursday Next, literary detective and newlywed is back to embark on an adventure that begins, quite literally on her own doorstep. It seems that Landen, her husband of four weeks, actually drowned in an accident when he was two years old. Someone, somewhere, sometime, is responsible. The sinisterContinue

Thursday Next, literary detective and newlywed is back to embark on an adventure that begins, quite literally on her own doorstep. It seems that Landen, her husband of four weeks, actually drowned in an accident when he was two years old. Someone, somewhere, sometime, is responsible. The sinister Goliath Corporation wants its operative Jack Schitt out of the poem in which Thursday trapped him, and it will do almost anything to achieve this - but bribing the ChronoGuard? Is that possible?

Having barely caught her breath after The Eyre Affair, Thursday must battle corrupt politicians, try to save the world from extinction, and help the Neanderthals to species self-determination. Mastadon migrations, journeys into Just William, a chance meeting with the Flopsy Bunnies, and violent life-and-death struggles in the summer sales are all part of a greater plan.

But whose? and why?

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  • Lost In a Good Book By Jasper Fforde

    Fforde's genre-jumping sequelIn the alternate universe of Welsh author Jasper Fforde (1985 England), cloning pets is commonplace, time is flexible, literature is sacred, the Crimean War lasted nearly 150 years and a multinational conglomerate called ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

  • The Best Reviews: Jasper Fforde, Lost in a Good Book

    "For readers wanting something different" Thursday Next has become a fifteen minute legend for stopping the multinational Goliath Corporation from extending the Crimean War in order to sell weapons (see The Eyre Affair). However, fame proves nasty fo ... (read full critics)

    thebestreviews published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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    Wow, there's a lot in this book: Time-travelling, book-jumping, same old Thursday Next and new characters... Somehow it gives me the sort of "I wish I were there" feeling. But that's probably the whole point in Fiction literature, isn't it?

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    tam said on Feb 19, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Meta-fiction, science-fiction, science-meta-fiction, utopias... This extraordinary book (as its author is, in many senses) plays with all the well-known motives of a lot of genres. Yet, it provides us with an insightful view on the world of fiction and the act of reading itself, both as a highly int ... (continue)

    Meta-fiction, science-fiction, science-meta-fiction, utopias... This extraordinary book (as its author is, in many senses) plays with all the well-known motives of a lot of genres. Yet, it provides us with an insightful view on the world of fiction and the act of reading itself, both as a highly intellectual activity and a primary need. Great (as the whole Thursday Next series is).

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    Anne Shirley said on Nov 15, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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