num_pages: 518
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 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: Thursday Next, Wednesday Next, Braxton Hicks, Landen Parke-Laine, Lavoisier, Polly Next, Miss Havisham, Daphne Farquitt, Yorrick Kaine, Aornis Hades, The Cheshire Cat (Lewis Carroll), Mycroft Next, Granny Next, The Bellman, Mr. Schitt-Hawse, Joffy Next, Spike Stoker, Harris Tweed, Thursday's Dad (name unknown), Pickwick, Akrid Snell, Jack Schitt, Cordelia Flakk, Acheron Hades
genres: Fantasy, Mystery, Books About Books, Alternate History, Time Travel, Urban Fantasy, Humor, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 53383
places: United Kingdom
series: Thursday Next
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Dilys Award
publisher: RB Large Print