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Jasper Fforde
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Publisher | Hodder Paperback | ||
ISBN | 9780340963098 | ||
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Wendy
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Synopsis
It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister?
All is not yet lost. Living at the quiet end of speculative fiction is the written Thursday Next, eager to prove herself worthy of her illustrious namesake.
The fictional 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.
Review
This is the latest book in the Thrusday Next series which is about a literary detective who polices the book world.
Thursday Next has disappeared so the fictional Thrusday has been given the task of finding her.
An exciting plot with several distractions on the way, one of them is the mechanical man called Sprocket who becomes Thursday's butler. Sprocket is an amazing character because he
is the perfect butler who always says the right thing at the right time, and by the lifting of an eyebrow he can show his feelings.
It was not until the end of the book that I managed to sort the Thursdays out, but I throughly enjoyed it because it has so much going for it - with the clever use of the English language, and his play on words with the zany sense of humour and the literary characters it was a joy to read. Highly Recommended.
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