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Title details for The Woman Who Died a Lot by Jasper Fforde - Available

The Woman Who Died a Lot

#7 in series

by Jasper Fforde
Emily Gray
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Jasper Fforde's delightfully zany Thursday Next series shows no signs of slowing down with its seventh entry, The Woman Who Died a Lot. Despite being semihappily semi-retired from SpecOps, Thursday accepts the head librarian position at the Swindon library. But soon threats from a supreme Deity, a mnemonomorph, and the nefarious Goliath corporation press Thursday back into active duty.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Thursday Next

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    October 2, 2012

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781464045981
      • File size: 314441 KB
      • Duration: 10:55:05

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Book 7 of the Thursday Next comic fantasy/alternate history series features the intrepid literary detective still striving to maintain order in the multiverse future. Narrator Emily Gray is the ideal foil for Jasper Fforde's quirky parody--her measured pacing and genteel British accent give a "straight man" quality to her performance. Gray delivers Fforde's fantasies with subdued hilarity. But the story line becomes somewhat mired in the author's improbable descriptions, parallel realities, and political expoundings. Retired from Bookworld's SpecOps, Thursday becomes the new librarian in Swindon, but corporate and military threats force her back into active duty to save the fictional day. Thought-provoking, imaginative humor and literary allusions abound, but the story is strongly linked to events in the previous novels, which should precede this listening experience. A.W. (c) AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 27, 2012
      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, itâs 2004, and Next is about to have a crowded week, even by her standards. As she puts it, it âbegan 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.â Meanwhile, Britain is attempting to manage a stupidity surplus: âhe nationâs stupidityâusually discharged on a harmless drip feed of minor bunglingâhad now risen far beyond the capacity of the nation to dispose of it in a safe and sensible fashion.â 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 Ffordeâs impressive imagination. Agent: Will Francis, Janklow & Nesbit U.K.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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