Lost in a Good Book
First edition
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| Author | Jasper Fforde |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Thursday Next |
| Genre | Alternative history, Fantasy novel |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
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2002 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 384 pp |
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| OCLC | 441651614 |
| Preceded by | The Eyre Affair |
| Followed by | The Well of Lost Plots |
Lost in a Good Book is an alternative history fantasy novel by Jasper Fforde. It won the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association 2004 Dilys Award. It is the second in the Thursday Next series.
Lost in a Good Book is the second book by Jasper Fforde and the sequel to the first adventure of literary detective Thursday Next, The Eyre Affair. Lost in a Good Book uses a variety of literary allusions as it follows Thursday through a vast government conspiracy.
Three months after the events of The Eyre Affair, Thursday Next is happily married to Landen Parke-Laine and working as a literary detective out of Swindon. One day, Thursday meets her father, a renegade ChronoGuard, who informs her that the world's going to end in a flood of an unknown pink chemical. This is a result of one of her uncle Mycroft's inventions going out of control. Mycroft has destroyed his Prose Portal after the events of The Eyre Affair and retired, leaving the invention business in the hands of his two well-meaning but inept sons, Orville and Wilbur.
Thursday is sent with her partner, Bowden Cable, to the mansion of Lord Volescamper, a major supporter of the front-runner in the up-coming election for President. In his extensive library, they discover an original manuscript of Shakespeare's lost play Cardenio. Tests done at the station determine its authenticity, and it seems to have appeared just in time to help its discoverer, Yorrick Kaine, to win the election (thanks to the "Shakespeare vote"). When he releases the play to the general public, victory is all but guaranteed.
Thursday had marooned Jack Schitt in Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven at the end of The Eyre Affair, and his employer, The Goliath Corporation, a Big Brother-like agency which is the de facto ruler of England, wants him back. They hire a ChronoGuard agent named Lavoisier to eradicate Thursday's husband Landen from the time line, as a hostage to blackmail Thursday into retrieving Schitt. Landen vanishes, and only Thursday remembers him. But she also has physical proof—she's pregnant with their child. Without Mycroft's Prose Portal, however, she'll have to learn a new way to travel between books.
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