Thursday Next literary detective and newlywed is back to embark on anadventure that begins quite literally on her own doorstep. It seems thatLanden her husband ... » 

Thursday Next literary detective and newlywed is back to embark on anadventure that begins quite literally on her own doorstep. It seems thatLanden her husband of four weeks actually drowned in an accident when he wastwo years old. Someone somewhere sometime is responsible. The sinisterGoliath Corporation wants its operative Jack Schitt out of the poem in whichThursday trapped him and it will do almost anything to achieve this butbribing the ChronoGuard? Is that possible? Having barely caught her breathafter The Eyre Affair Thursday must battle corrupt politicians try to savethe world from extinction and help the Neanderthals to species selfdetermination. Mastadon migrations journeys into Just William a chancemeeting with the Flopsy Bunnies and violent lifeanddeath struggles in thesummer sales are all part of a greater plan. But whose? and why? «