Jasper Fforde draws on his previous and varied career in the world of film combined with the humour more suited to the Muppets than literature to created an alternative history world where (amongst other things) people travel in air ships and use the Gravitube to visit other parts of the world dodos, mammoths and Neanderthals have all been brought back from extinction through the power of genetic engineering England is a republic with (until recently) George Formby as president for life and most unbelievably living in Swindon is cool! Oh and cheese is heavily taxed and many varieties illegal. The written Thursday is soon hot on the trail of her factual alter-ego, and quickly stumbles upon a plot so fiendish that it threatens the very BookWorld itself. Living at the quiet end of speculative fiction is the written Thursday Next, eager to prove herself worth of her illustrious namesake. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister?Īll is not yet lost.
But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes.
Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war.
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