Fforde’s brand of literary lunacy continues. In the real world – Swindon to be exact – Thursday Next has been missing for a month, she’s crossed over to bookworld working undercover on ‘something big’ but with a week to go before peace talks that could avert a genre war the real Thursday vanishes without a trace.
In bookworld the fictional version of Thursday suddenly becomes very popular, the council of genres want to use her as a mute stand-in at the peace talks suffering from ‘irritable vowel syndrome’. The Men in Plaid keep trying to kill her and Red Herring from accident investigation is chasing her for a report on an obscure trans-genre taxi accident.
Does Thursday have the answers, did her understudy Scarlet get hyphenated and sleep with a gnome, who is Adrian Dorsett and why was the ISBN scrubbed off his book? Does she really need a butler? Are Thursday and the peace delegation sailing up the river without a paddle and most importantly is Harry Potter annoyed that he’ll always look like Daniel Radcliffe?
Long-time Fforde fans can dive right in to this brew of literary puns and witty word play. If you are new to Thursday’s adventures, you might want to start with The Eyre Affair.
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