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As the series has shown readers, the real Thursday is quite skilled at plunging into BookWorld and catching characters who have tried to escape their stories. In this Nextian universe, characters move between that world, the RealWorld, and the pages of the BookWorld, where they act out scenes from novels while villains try to sabotage the plots, among other genre-bending activities. Over that period, he’s written five wildly inventive “Thursday Next” novels that follow the literary adventures of Next, a female detective in an alternative universe where England is still fighting the Crimean War, the country is controlled by the unscrupulous multinational Goliath Corporation and Next herself is the dubious owner of a cloned dodo named Miss Pickwick. Fans will rejoice that their favorite character in the Fforde universe is back.It’s conceivable that, after a decade-long run as one of the more popular speculative fiction writers, even Jasper Fforde could be in need of a challenge. Once again New York Times bestselling author Jasper Fforde has a field day gleefully blending satire, romance, and thriller with literary allusions galore in a fantastic adventure through the landscape of a frisky and fertile imagination. A trip up the mighty Metaphoric River beckons-a trip that will reveal a fiendish plot that threatens the very fabric of the BookWorld itself. The Council wants her to pretend to be the real Thursday and travel as a peacekeeping emissary to the warring factions. But with the real Thursday apparently retired to the Realworld, the Council of Genres turns to the written Thursday. All-out Genre war is rumbling, and the BookWorld desperately needs a heroine like Thursday Next.

Jasper Fforde's exuberant return to the fantastical BookWorld opens during a time of great unrest. The sixth installment of the New York Times bestselling Thursday Next series-from the author of The Constant Rabbit