Without Mycroft's Prose Portal, however, she'll have to learn a new way to travel between books.ĭuring one of her dreams, she encounters Landen in her memory, who spurs her to travel to Osaka to meet Mrs. But she also has physical proof-she's pregnant with their child. Landen vanishes, and only Thursday remembers him. They hire a ChronoGuard agent named Lavoisier to eradicate Thursday's husband Landen from the time line, as a hostage to blackmail Thursday into retrieving Schitt. Thursday had marooned Jack Schitt in Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven at the end of The Eyre Affair, and his employer, The Goliath Corporation, a Big Brother-like agency which is the de facto ruler of England, wants him back. When he releases the play to the general public, victory is all but guaranteed. Tests done at the station determine its authenticity, and it seems to have appeared just in time to help its discoverer, Yorrick Kaine, to win the election (thanks to the "Shakespeare vote"). In his extensive library, they discover an original manuscript of Shakespeare's lost play Cardenio. Thursday is sent with her partner, Bowden Cable, to the mansion of Lord Volescamper, a major supporter of the front-runner in the up-coming election for President. Mycroft has destroyed his Prose Portal after the events of The Eyre Affair and retired, leaving the invention business in the hands of his two well-meaning but inept sons, Orville and Wilbur. This is a result of one of her uncle Mycroft's inventions going out of control. One day, Thursday meets her father, a renegade ChronoGuard, who informs her that the world's going to end in a flood of an unknown pink chemical. Three months after the events of The Eyre Affair, Thursday Next is happily married to Landen Parke-Laine and working as a literary detective in Swindon. Lost in a Good Book uses a variety of literary allusions as it follows Thursday through a vast government conspiracy. Lost in a Good Book is the second book by Jasper Fforde and the sequel to the first adventure of literary detective Thursday Next, The Eyre Affair. It is the second in the Thursday Next series. It won the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association 2004 Dilys Award. Lost in a Good Book is an alternate history fantasy novel by Jasper Fforde.
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