num_pages: 372
description: If Thursday thought she could avoid the spotlight after her heroic escapades in the pages of Jane Eyre, she was sorely mistaken. The unforgettable literary detective has another think coming." The love of her life has been eradicated by the corrupt multinational Goliath, and to rescue him Thursday must retrieve a supposedly vanquished enemy from the pages of "The Raven." But Poe is off-limits to even the most seasoned literary interloper. Enter a professional: the man-hating Miss Havisham from Dickens's Great Expectations. As Miss H's new apprentice, Thursday keeps her motives secret as she learns the ropes of Jurisfiction, where she moonlights as a Prose Resource Operative inside books. As if jumping into the works of Kafka and Austen, and even Beatrix Potter's Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, weren't enough, Thursday finds herself the target of a series of potentially lethal coincidences, the authenticator of a newly discovered play by the Bard himself and the only one who can prevent an unidentifiable pink sludge from engulfing all life on Earth.
language: English
title: Lost in a Good Book
titlecomplete: Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
characters: Akrid Snell, Pickwick, Cordelia Flakk, Spike Stoker, Harris Tweed, Wednesday Next, Yorrick Kaine, The Bellman, Lavoisier, Mr. Schitt-Hawse, Acheron Hades, Miss Havisham, Mycroft Next, Daphne Farquitt, Braxton Hicks, The Cheshire Cat (Lewis Carroll), Thursday's Dad (name unknown), Jack Schitt, Joffy Next, Thursday Next, Polly Next, Landen Parke-Laine, Aornis Hades, Granny Next
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Books About Books, Mystery, Humor, Science Fiction Fantasy, Time Travel, Alternate History, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy
ratings_count: 53386
places: United Kingdom
series: Thursday Next
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Dilys Award
publisher: NEL