num_pages: 399
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 whom Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times calls "part Bridget Jones, part Nancy Drew and part Dirty Harry" had another think coming. The love of her life has been eradicated by Goliath, everyone's favorite corrupt multinational. 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 her 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 likes of Kafka, Austen, and 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: Braxton Hicks, Pickwick, Daphne Farquitt, Lavoisier, Thursday's Dad (name unknown), Granny Next, Harris Tweed, Cordelia Flakk, Wednesday Next, Thursday Next, The Bellman, Yorrick Kaine, Acheron Hades, Spike Stoker, Joffy Next, Landen Parke-Laine, Mycroft Next, Jack Schitt, Aornis Hades, Mr. Schitt-Hawse, Polly Next, Miss Havisham, The Cheshire Cat (Lewis Carroll), Akrid Snell
genres: Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Books About Books, Mystery, Time Travel, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Alternate History, Humor
ratings_count: 53383
places: United Kingdom
series: Thursday Next
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Dilys Award
publisher: Penguin Books