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One of Our Thursdays is Missing

One of Our Thursdays is Missing

FantasyMystery
Pages
404
Published
2011
Language
English

Synopsis

The BookWorld is on the brink of a massive genre war, and the only person who can stop it has gone missing. When the real Thursday Next vanishes just before crucial peace talks, her fictional counterpart must step out of the pages to find her. This written version of Thursday travels across the Metaphoric River to uncover a conspiracy that could destroy their entire literary reality.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

WhimsicalFunnySatiricalIntellectual
Secret IdentityQuestMystery BoxMultiple POVs

Genres

Fantasy Mystery Urban Fantasy Amateur Sleuth Alternate History

About the author

J
Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde is an English novelist, born in London in 1961 and now living in Wales. After working as a focus puller on films including GoldenEye and The Mask of Zorro, he published his first novel, The Eyre Affair, in 2001, after 76 publisher rejections. He is best known for the Thursday Next series, a run of literary comic fantasies set in an alternate Britain where characters can be entered inside books. He has also written the Nursery Crime novels featuring detective Jack Spratt, the dystop...

Characters

Thursday NextProtagonist
The Written Thursday NextProtagonist
All characters in One of Our Thursdays is Missing

Frequently asked questions

  • Can I read this book if I have not read the previous Thursday Next novels?

    This book is not intended to be read as a standalone, as it relies heavily on established lore and the complex internal mechanics of the BookWorld that are developed throughout the preceding series entries.

  • How does the protagonist in this book differ from the earlier novels?

    While previous books focus on the real-world Thursday Next, this installment shifts the perspective to the written version of Thursday, a fictional character who exists within the books that the real Thursday inhabits.

  • What is the origin of the book's title?

    The title is a deliberate reference to the 1942 British war film One of Our Aircraft Is Missing.