Thursday Next, literary detective and newlywed is back to embark on an adventure that begins, quite literally on her own doorstep. It seems that Landen, her husband of four weeks, actually drowned in an accident when he was two years old. Someone, somewhere, sometime, is responsible. Having barely caught her breath after The Eyre Affair, Thursday must battle corrupt politicians, try to save the world from extinction, and help the Neanderthals to species self-determination. Mastadon migrations, journeys into Just William, a chance meeting with the Flopsy Bunnies, and violent life-and-death struggles in the summer sales are all part of a greater plan. But whose? and why?

Jasper Fforde is the author of the critically acclaimed The Eyre Affair, an imaginative literary crime-caper and first in the Thursday Next trilogy. Fforde has worked for many years in the film industry as a camera technician on films including The Mask of Zorro, Entrapment, and The Saint. Raised in England, he lives and works in Wales.