Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde

Lost in a Good Book charts the continuing adventures of Thursday Next, dodo-owning, book-jumping, literary detective and decorated war hero. The book opens a few months after the events of Jasper Fforde's debut The Eyre Affair, and sees our heroine getting increasingly fed up with being at the centre of a media circus. Facing a court case from the mysterious Jurisfiction for altering the ending to Jane Eyre, and dealing with blackmail threats from the sinister Goliath Corporation - who are desperate to retrieve their operative from the pages of Edgar Allen Poe's 'The Raven', it only takes a few short pages for the reader to realise that they're dealing with a ...

There are some authors that take some time to acquire your affections and some for which it is Love at First Sight. Jasper Fforde most definitely falls into the latter category. From the moment I started reading his first novel, “The Eyre Affair”, I knew I had another author to add to my role of honour alongside The Master (Terry Pratchett), Joanne Harris, Garth Nix, Tom Holt, Wilbur Smith, Bernard Cornwell and Robert Rankin, to name but a few. “Lost in a Good Book” is the second book featuring Fforde's heroine, Thursday Next and follows on from where “The Eyre Affair” left off so, in order to make sense of what is going on (if that is possible) you have to ...