The Well Of Lost Plots Synopsis
Leaving Swindon behind her to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots (the place where all fiction is created), Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from within an unpublished book of dubious merit entitled 'Caversham Heights'. Landen, her husband, is still eradicated, Aornis Hades is meddling with Thursday's memory, and Miss Havisham - when not sewing up plot-holes in 'Mill on the Floss' - is trying to break the land-speed record on the A409.
But something is rotten in the state of Jurisfiction. Perkins is 'accidentally' eaten by the minotaur, and Snell succumbs to the Mispeling Vyrus. As a shadow looms over popular fiction, Thursday must keep her wits about her and discover not only what is going on, but also who she can trust to tell about it ... With grammasites, holesmiths, trainee characters, pagerunners, baby dodos and an adopted home scheduled for demolition, 'The Well of Lost Plots' is at once an addictively exciting adventure and an insight into how books are made, who makes them - and why there is no singular for 'scampi'.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780340825938 |
| Publication date: |
19th January 2004 |
| Author: |
Jasper Fforde |
| Publisher: |
Hodder Paperback an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
360 pages |
| Series: |
Thursday Next |
| Primary Genre |
Action Adventure
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Jasper Fforde Press Reviews
Jasper Fforde has gone where no other fictioneer has gone before. Millions of readers now follow ... Thank you, Jasper - John Sutherland, Guardian
A born wordsmith of effervescent imagination - Christina Hardyment, Independent
[Fforde's] brand of inspired lunacy truly stands on its own ... this new book completes his creation of a world of true literary comic genius - Sunday Express on The Well of Lost Plots
The third of this cult series sees Jasper Fforde hitting his stride ... should be a joy to anyone who loves reading - Time Out on The Well of Lost Plots
An immensely enjoyable, almost compulsive experience - New York Times on Lost in a Good Book
Douglas Adams would be proud - Scotsman on Lost in a Good Book
Don't ask, just read it. Fforde is a true original - Sunday Express on Lost in a Good Book
This year's grown-up JK Rowling - Sunday Times
The Eyre Affair is a silly book for smart people; postmodernism played as raw, howling farce - Independent
It is always a privilege to watch the birth of a cult, and Hodder has just cut the umbilical cord ... There are shades of Douglas Adams, Lewis Carroll, 'Clockwork Orange' and '1984'. And that's just for starters - Time Out, on 'The Eyre Affair'
Ingenious - I'll watch Jasper Fforde nervously - Terry Pratchett on The Eyre Affair
This year's grown-up JK Rowling - Sunday Times on Lost in a Good Book
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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