eaving Swindon behind her to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots (the place where all fiction is created), Thursday Next, Literary Detective & soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from within an unpublished book of dubious merit entitled ' Caversham Heights'. Landen, her husb&, is still eradicated, Aornis Hades is meddling with Thursday's memory, & Miss Havisham
- when not sewing up plot-holes in ' Mill on the Floss'
- is trying to break the l&-speed record on the A409. But something is rotten in the state of Jurisfiction. Perkins is 'accidentally' eaten by the minotaur, & Snell succumbs to the Mispeling Vyrus. As a shadow looms over popular fiction, Thursday must keep her wits about her & discover not only what is going on, but also who she can trust to tell about it.. . With grammasites, holesmiths, trainee characters, pagerunners, baby dodos & an adopted home scheduled for demolition, ' The Well of Lost Plots' is at once an addictively exciting adventure & an insight into how books are made, who makes them
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