- Thursday Next (Fictitious character), Women detectives, Fiction, Characters and characteristics in literature
Tired of her responsibilities as the Bellman in Jurisfiction, literary sleuth Thursday Next packs up her son, Friday, to return to Swindon, accompanied by the Danish prince Hamlet, only to find herself coping with outlaw fictioneer Yorrick Kaine.
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Cool, comic, ironic and warm.
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Jasper Fforde
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 416
- Publisher
- DTV Deutscher Taschenbuch, Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780340838761
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- Thursday Next (Fictitious character)
- Women detectives
- Fiction
- Characters and characteristics in literature
- English women novelists in fiction
- Characters and characteristics in literature in fiction
- English Women novelists
- Women detectives in fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
- Authors, fiction
- Next, thursday (fictitious character), fiction
- New York Times reviewed
“Jurisfiction is the name given to the policing agency inside books.”
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