Most of the story is spent in BookWorld, which, at the very beginning of the novel, undergoes a complete makeover to become more “geographical” (and, you assume, more interesting for Fforde to write about). The real Thursday’s gone missing, so the written Thursday has to solve the mystery. The story isn’t related by the “real” Thursday, but instead by the "written” Thursday – the fictional BookWorld character who plays her in the novels. It’s all a lot more complicated than that – involving literary gags, croquet, dodos and George Formby – but we have a word count to stick to. Previously on… Thursday Next is a real-world literary detective who can leap into the imaginary Bookworld where novels are created and maintained by self-aware fictional casts. Anyone expecting Jasper Fforde‘s first BookWorld novel since 2007 to return to the old formula is in for a shock.
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Stuck in a dreary Boston winter, Annabelle Martin would like nothing more than to run away from her current life. A woman looking for a new lease on life moves to Arizona where she rents a guest house on a gorgeous property with a mysterious owner-a man who teaches her about resilience, courage, and ultimately true love, in this funny, bighearted novel about hope and healing from New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay. |