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The Well of Lost Plots Book

Word-of-mouth among readers often does more to make an author's name than any publicity campaign. That's certainly the case with Jasper Fforde, and The Well of Lost Plots will be eagerly devoured by his ever-growing coterie of admirers. Fforde writes playful and exhilarating books (which make delightful sport with the very art of fiction itself), and the experience his work offers the reader is quite unique. It's little wonder he has virtually created his own market. As in Lost in a Good Book and The Eyre Affair, this new novel is as much about itself and the whole world of books as it is about its putative plot. But a plot is needed so that Fforde can sustain his amazing inventiveness, and the narrative is kicked into action with the return of literary detective Thursday Next. It's almost impossible to summarise the amazing adventures in which the beguiling (and confused) Ms Next becomes involved, but after she leaves Swindon (and her life inside an unpublished book called Caversham Heights), she becomes involved in the inauguration of a golden age of fictional narrative. But this turns out to be a very dangerous experience, and she finds herself having strange encounters with Dickens' Miss Havisham (even more eccentric than she was in Great Expectations) and enduring an unsettling journey into the world of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. But who is the villain laying waste to her memories? And will she come to terms with the fact that her husband Landen exists only in her mind? As this synopsis indicates, The Well of Lost Plots is a truly unique jeu d'esprit. It helps to be familiar with many of the books being riffed on here, but even if you're not, this will be one of the most idiosyncratic and often hilarious experiences you will find a within the pages of a book. Jasper Fforde enthusiasts know that already. --Barry ForshawRead More

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  • Amazon

    The third in his phenomenally successful series, this is the book that will break out Jasper Fforde from cult hit to international bestsellerdom.

  • Foyles

    The third book in the phenomenal Thursday Next series from Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde. In the words of one critic: 'Don't ask. Just read it.'Leaving Swindon behind her to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots (the place where all fiction is created), Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from within an unpublished book of dubious merit entitled 'Caversham Heights'. Landen, her husband, is still eradicated, Aornis Hades is meddling with Thursday's memory, and Miss Havisham - when not sewing up plot-holes in 'Mill on the Floss' - is trying to break the land-speed record on the A409. But something is rotten in the state of Jurisfiction. Perkins is 'accidentally' eaten by the minotaur, and Snell succumbs to the Mispeling Vyrus. As a shadow looms over popular fiction, Thursday must keep her wits about her and discover not only what is going on, but also who she can trust to tell about it ... With grammasites, holesmiths, trainee characters, pagerunners, baby dodos and an adopted home scheduled for demolition, 'The Well of Lost Plots' is at once an addictively exciting adventure and an insight into how books are made, who makes them - and why there is no singular for 'scampi'.With grammasites, holesmiths, trainee characters, pagerunners, baby dodos and an adopted home scheduled for demolition, 'The Well of Lost Plots' is at once an addictively exciting adventure and an insight into how books are made, who makes them - and why there is no singular for 'scampi'.

  • Play

    Leaving Swindon behind her to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots (the place where all fiction is created) Thursday Next Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family ponders her next move from within an unpublished book of dubious merit entitled 'Caversham Heights'. Landen her husband is still eradicated Aornis Hades is meddling with Thursday's memory and Miss Havisham - when not sewing up plotholes in 'Mill on the Floss' - is trying to break the land-speed record on the A409. But something is rotten in the state of Jurisfiction. Perkins is 'accidentally' eaten by the minotaur and Snell succumbs to the Mispeling Vyrus. As a shadow looms over popular fiction Thursday must keep her wits about her and discover not only what is going on but also who she can trust to tell about it...With grammasites holesmiths trainee characters pagerunners baby dodos and an adopted home scheduled for demolition 'The Well of Lost Plots' is at once an addictively exciting adventure and an insight into how books are made who makes them - and why there is no singular for 'scampi'.

  • TheBookPeople

    Jasper Fforde?s novels are often fairly difficult to describe due to their fantastically original and quirky nature and The Well of Lost Plots is no different. The author is known for creating incredible parallel worlds and in this offering he infiltrates his forgotten fiction character into the works of some of the greatest authors of all time. As Ms Next comes face-to-face with the eccentric Miss Haversham and endures an unsettling visit to Wuthering Heights, this work of sheer ingeniousness takes the reader on an eye-opening tour inside the world of fiction.

  • Blackwell

    The third in Jasper Fforde's phenomenally successful Thursday Next series: into the Bookworld! Leaving Swindon behind her to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots (the place where all fiction is created), Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon...

  • BookDepository

    The Well Of Lost Plots : Paperback : Hodder & Stoughton : 9780340825938 : : 19 Jan 2004 : The third in Jasper Fforde's phenomenally successful Thursday Next series: into the Bookworld!

  • 0340825936
  • 9780340825938
  • Jasper Fforde
  • 19 January 2004
  • Hodder Paperbacks
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 384
  • n.e.
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