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The Well of Lost Plots

By: Jasper Fforde
Narrated by: Gabrielle Kruger
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Leaving Swindon behind her to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots (the place where all fiction is created), Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from within an unpublished book of dubious merit entitled 'Caversham Heights'.

Landen, her husband, is still eradicated, Aornis Hades is meddling with Thursday's memory, and Miss Havisham - when not sewing up plot-holes in 'Mill on the Floss' - is trying to break the land-speed record on the A409.

But something is rotten in the state of Jurisfiction. Perkins is 'accidentally' eaten by the minotaur, and Snell succumbs to the Mispeling Vyrus. As a shadow looms over popular fiction, Thursday must keep her wits about her and 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 and an adopted home scheduled for demolition, 'The Well of Lost Plots' is at once an addictively exciting adventure and an insight into how books are made, who makes them - and why there is no singular for 'scampi'.

Please note: Chapter 13 has been intentionally omitted from this title.

©2003 Jasper Fforde (P)2003 ISIS Publishing Ltd
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Why aren't all these books available on audible?

Where does The Well of Lost Plots rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Equal to all the others of the Thursday Next series. Jasper Fforde is the quintessential writer of books you want to hear out loud - a romp, English literature lesson, suspense and hilarity, all rolled up in one package. How can one not listen to them?

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Well of Lost Plots?

All equally good

What about Gabrielle Kruger’s performance did you like?

At first I didn't think e voice fit Thursday Next as I had imagined her to be. Now, it can't be anyone but her.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Laugh, a hell of a lot

Any additional comments?

Please, oh please, get the rest of this series on audible.com, soon. Then get onto the two book nursery crime series. I have friends who I know would sign up to audible, just for those nine books.

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Disappointing but still

It’s still a decent book, but compared to the brilliance of the first two in the series, it’s quite the disappointment. Random events and snippets are shoved in all over just to add references to various literary classic, but without relevance to the narrative. In the end, it doesn’t even tie up the main storyline, instead leaving that for the next book Amusing in places, but could have done with some serious beta reading (even alpha, if that’s a thing outside game dev) before publishing.

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