Goliath representative Schitt-Hawse wants something from Thursday: the release of Jack Schitt from Poe's 'The Raven' - and he's not beyond a few dirty tricks, including eradicating her husband (changing the course of time to wipe out all traces of him) in order to blackmail her into doing his bidding.

The dominant entity in this world is the Goliath Corporation - hard to take serious, but very powerful. Long distance travel does not involve airplanes, neanderthals have been reengineered (and are used as cheap labour) - and, above all, literature really matters. The world of the Thursday Next novels is similar to ours, but not quite the same. It's still 1985, and Thursday is adjusting to married life, trying to teach her pet dodo, Pickwick, to stand on one leg, and trying to avoid some of the publicity stunts the Special Operations Network expect her to partake in. Lost in a Good Book continues the tale of Thursday Next, a Literary Detective who saved the day (or at least made Jane Eyre what it is today) in The Eyre Affair. We acknowledge (and remind and warn you) that they may, in fact, be entirely unrepresentative of the actual reviews by any other measure. Similarly the illustrative quotes chosen here are merely those the complete review subjectively believes represent the tenor and judgment of the review as a whole. Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review 's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers. That said, this is definitely one for the English majors.' - Lloyd Rose, The Washington Post But it's exceptionally light on all of them. Okay, maybe Lost in a Good Book is a creature with more than the usual number of feet. His novel is satire, fantasy, literary criticism, thriller, whodunit, game, puzzle, joke, postmodern prank and tilt-a-whirl.

'It would be easy for all this to get too twee for words, if the words weren't Fforde's and he didn't have a head-spinning narrative agility.

'Suspend belief and let yourself be entertained by a witty romp through a fantasy land where it is literally possible to be lost in a good book.' - Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph.'There is a certain self-delighted quality to all this cleverness that would probably become annoying if Fforde weren't so resolutely unclever about his own writing.' - Bruno Maddox, The New York Times Book Review.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs.

Lost in a good book by jasper fforde