Welcome to England in 1985, although it may not be quite as you
remember it. It is unlikely, for example, that you recall seeing or
hearing about the migrating mammoths or the Gravitube, a transport
system that could whisk you to New York or Australia in under an
hour. Unlikely indeed because this is an England of Jasper Fforde's
imagination and it is quite gloriously barmy. Thursday Next, the
government agent heroine of Fforde's highly successful novel The
Eyre Affair, returns to continue her adventures. In the last
instalment she ended up inside the pages of Jane Eyre on the trail
of master criminal Acheron Hades. She escaped with her life but the
plot of the classic novel was irrevocably altered. Now, back in the
'real' world, her exploits have made her famous but the attention
is not always welcome. Certain shadowy figures are still upset that
Thursday left one of their number in Poe's The Raven, and they will
try all manner of dirty tricks to 'persuade' her to retrieve him.
As if this were not enough, the Earth is about to be threatened
with devastation from a very unlikely source. To make things right,
Thursday will have to travel through time and fiction, difficult
and dangerous at the best of times but even more complicated if,
like her, you happen to be pregnant. Lost In A Good Book defies
simple summarization but taken as a whole it has a certain daft
logic, and no small amount of charm. The novel wears its Kafka and
Lewis Carroll influences proudly, even introducing the Cheshire
Cat, the Red Queen and the courtroom from The Trial to excellent
effect. The reader must be prepared for absolutely anything because
all rules of time and reality are hopelessly blurred as we follow
Thursday through Great Expectations, Swindon and the washing
instructions on a pair of jeans. It might be worth reading The Eyre
Affair first in order to see exactly how Thursday got to where she
is at the beginning of this second episode, but it works perfectly
well as a stand-alone work. The journey is thrilling and
unpredictable, peppered with literary references and in-jokes that
reward the well-read, and altogether a joy. (Kirkus UK)
The second book in Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde's
phenomenally successful Thursday Next series. 'Fans of the late
Douglas Adams, or, even, Monty Python, will feel at home with
Fforde' - Herald 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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