Lost in a Good Book Synopsis
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?
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780340733578 |
| Publication date: |
18th July 2002 |
| Author: |
Jasper Fforde |
| Publisher: |
Hodder Paperback an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
371 pages |
| Series: |
Thursday Next |
| Primary Genre |
Action Adventure
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Jasper Fforde Press Reviews
Don't ask, just read it. Fforde is a true original - Sunday Express
Let yourself be entertained by a witty romp - Sunday Telegraph
This year's grown up J K Rowling - Sunday Times
Douglas Adams would be proud - Scotsman
The reader is catapulted in and out of truth and imagination on a hectic, humorous and neatly constructed chase that finishes by tying up every loose end in the most satisfying, novelistic way - The Times
Jasper Fforde's fascinating first novel reads like a Jules Verne story told by Lewis Carroll...Forget all the rules of time, space, and reality; just sit back and enjoy the adventure as Thursday, with the help of Jane Eyre's Mr Rochester, fights a desperate battle in which Jane herself is in jeopardy. - Sunday Telegraph
Ingenious - I'll watch Jasper Fforde nervously - Terry Pratchett
A stroke of fantasy genius . . . Unashamedly silly, but also marvellously intelligent . . . Hilarious - SFX
An absolute joy to read. Is it a crime novel? I couldn't really tell, I was laughing too much. - Birmingham Post
What Fforde is pulling is a variation on the classic Monty Python gambit: the incongruous juxtaposition og low comedy and high erudition - this scam has not been pulled off with such off-hand finesse and manic verve since the Pythons shut up shop. 'The Eyre Affair' is a silly book for smart people: postmodernism played as raw, howling farce - Independent
Compulsively readable ... catnip to book lovers ... totally absorbing - Time Out New York
It is always a privilege to watch the birth of a cult, and Hodder has just cut the umbilical cord. Always ridiculous, often hilarious ... blink and you miss a vital narrative leap. There are shades of Douglas Adams, Lewis Carroll, 'Clockwork Orange' and '1984'. And that's just for starters - Time Out
Dark, funny, complex and inventive, The Eyre Affair is a breath of fresh air, and is easily one of the strongest debuts in years. - Locus
A decidedly quirky and strangely thought-provoking debut novel - Scotland on Sunday
The eccentric epic - A read that'll leave you breathless - Elle
Engaging and captivating . . . not just one of the best sequels I've ever read, but one of the best damn books to come out of the UK in some time. - Engima
About Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde traded a varied career in the film industry for staring out of the window and sucking the end of a pencil. He lives and works in Wales and has a passion for aviation.
Fellow novelist KERRY REICHS on JASPER FFORDE
The Thursday Next and
Nursery Crime series are a quirky treat for any bibliophile. Fforde draws readers into hilarious and surreal alternative universes, such as a 1985 Britain where dodos are a common pet and the Goliath Corporation controls the world. Favorite fictional characters have active lives behind their pages, and literary factionalism is more influential than politics. Full of clever entertainment and sly references,
The Eyre Affair is a tour de force of the small but highly entertaining science fiction literary detective thriller. I view it as one of my greatest accomplishments that I was referenced as an “Out World” writer in
First Among Sequels.
Author Photo © Mari Roberts
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