The Woman Who Died a Lot
A Thursday Next Novel
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4.6 • 58 Ratings
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
The seventh installment in Jasper Fforde’s New York Times bestselling series follows literary detective Thursday Next on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England—from the author of Early Riser
With more than one million books in print worldwide, Jasper Fforde’s beloved series charms a growing number of readers with each new adventure. In The Woman Who Died a Lot, Thursday Next faces her trickiest assignment yet.
When her former SpecOps division is reinstated, Thursday assumes she’s the obvious choice to lead the Literary Detectives. Instead, she’s put in charge of the Swindon All-You-Can-Eat-at-Fatso’s Drink Not Included Library. But where Thursday goes, trouble follows. As the new Chief Librarian faces one-hundred-percent budget cuts and the ever-evil Jack Schitt, the Next children face their own career hiccups—and possible nonexistence.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Fforde (One of Our Thursdays is Missing) continues to show that his forte is absurdist humor in his seventh crime thriller starring Thursday Next, a member of the Literary Detectives division of Special Operations in an alternate-universe Britain. This time, it s 2004, and Next is about to have a crowded week, even by her standards. As she puts it, it began with a trip into Swindon in order to find myself a job and ended with a pillar of cleansing fire descending from the heavens, a rethink on the Wessex Library Service operating budget, and my son shooting Gavin Watkins dead. Meanwhile, Britain is attempting to manage a stupidity surplus: he nation s stupidity usually discharged on a harmless drip feed of minor bungling had now risen far beyond the capacity of the nation to dispose of it in a safe and sensible fashion. Toast has become the newest fad food, spawning a popular chain of topless toast bars known as Tooters. Such details help flesh out this endearingly-bizarre fantasy world limited only by Fforde s impressive imagination.
Customer Reviews
Excellent
This book exceeded my expectations, who knew this late in the series a book of this quality could be written? It was funny, it was sad, it was a page turner. Best book I've read in awhile