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One of Our Thursdays Is Missing : A Thursday Next Novel - Jasper Fforde

One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

A Thursday Next Novel

By: Jasper Fforde

Paperback | 31 January 2012

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The newest tour de force from The New York Times bestselling author of Thursday Next and Shades of Grey.

Jasper Fforde's exuberant return to the fantastical BookWorld opens during a time of great unrest. All-out Genre war is rumbling, and the BookWorld desperately needs a heroine like Thursday Next. But with the real Thursday apparently retired to the Realworld, the Council of Genres turns to the written Thursday.

The Council wants her to pretend to be the real Thursday and travel as a peacekeeping emissary to the warring factions. A trip up the mighty Metaphoric River beckons-a trip that will reveal a fiendish plot that threatens the very fabric of the BookWorld itself.

Once again New York Times bestselling author Jasper Fforde has a field day gleefully blending satire, romance, and thriller with literary allusions galore in a fantastic adventure through the landscape of a frisky and fertile imagination. Fans will rejoice that their favorite character in the Fforde universe is back.

About the Author

Jasper Fforde is the author of four previous Thursday Next novels: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, and Something Rotten. He is also the author of the Nursery Crimes Series, featuring Big Over Easy and Fourth Bear. All of Jasper Fforde's books are available from Penguin. He lives in Wales.
Industry Reviews
"One of Our Thursdays is Missing, like other Fforde novels, is jam packed with spot-on parody, puns and wry observations about words and genres that will delight literary-minded fans of the series." --Los Angeles Times

"There is no denying Fforde's supersized imagination, linguistic agility and love of books, Books, BOOKS." --Chicago Sun-Times

"Fforde's diabolical meshing of insight and humor makes a 'mimefield' both frightening and funny, while the reader must traverse a volume that's minefield of unexpected turns and amusing twists." --Publishers Weekly

"One of Our Thursdays is Missing is filled with passages [in] which geeky humor jostles with genuine insight about the current state of fiction. . . . [T]ake a joy ride with the passionate reader who wrote this novel." --Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

"Forget all the rules of time, space and reality; just sit back and enjoy the adventure." --Sunday Telegraph

"A riot of puns, in-jokes and literary allusions that Fforde carries off with aplomb" --Daily Mail

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