NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -The first novel in the renowned Thursday Next series, which "combines elements of Monty Python, Harry Potter, Stephen Hawking, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (The Wall Street Journal). <p/>"A literary wonderland [that] recalls Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series [and] the works of Lewis Carroll."-USA Today <p/>Meet Thursday Next, "part Bridget Jones, part Nancy Drew, and part Dirty Harry" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times), a literary detective without equal, fear, or boyfriend-and welcome to a surreal version of Great Britain, circa 1985, where time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wadsworth poem, militant Baconians heckle performances of Hamlet, and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday, renowned Special Operative in literary detection, until someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature. <p/>When Jane Eyre is plucked from the pages of Brontë's novel, Thursday must track down the villain and enter a novel herself to avert a heinous act of literary homicide. <p/>Don't miss any of Jasper Fforde's delightfully entertaining Thursday Next novels:
THE EYRE AFFAIR -LOST IN A GOOD BOOK -THE WELL OF LOST PLOTS -SOMETHING ROTTEN -FIRST AMONG SEQUELS -ONE OF OUR THURSDAYS IS MISSING -THE WOMAN WHO DIED A LOT
