num_pages: 372
description: Thursday Next, literary detective and registered dodo owner begins her married life with the disturbing news that her husband of only a month drowned thirty-eight years ago, and no one but Thursday has any memory of him at all. Someone, somewhere, sometime, is responsible. Could it be the ubiquitous Goliath Corporation, who will stop at nothing to get their operative Jack Schitt out of ‘The Raven’ --- the poem in which Thursday trapped him? Or are more sinister forces at work in Swindon?Having barely caught her breath after The Eyre Affair, Thursday heads back into fiction to search for some answers. Along the way she finds herself helping Miss Havisham close narrative loopholes in Great Expectations, struggling for a deeper understanding of The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies and learning the truth about Larry the Lamb. Paper politicians, lost Shakespearean manuscripts, woolly mammoth migrations, a flurry of near-fatal coincidences and impending Armageddon are all part of a greater plan.But whose? And why?
language: English
title: Lost in a Good Book
titlecomplete: Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
characters: Lavoisier, Wednesday Next, Acheron Hades, Thursday's Dad (name unknown), Thursday Next, Mr. Schitt-Hawse, Granny Next, Pickwick, Akrid Snell, The Cheshire Cat (Lewis Carroll), Jack Schitt, Landen Parke-Laine, Cordelia Flakk, Daphne Farquitt, Harris Tweed, Yorrick Kaine, Polly Next, Spike Stoker, Braxton Hicks, Mycroft Next, Aornis Hades, Miss Havisham, Joffy Next, The Bellman
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Alternate History, Humor, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Books About Books
ratings_count: 53385
places: United Kingdom
series: Thursday Next
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Dilys Award
publisher: Hodder and Stoughton