The New York Times bestseller and the wildly inventive sixth installment of a series that has more than one million copies and counting in print Dazzlingly funny and imaginative Jasper Ffordes books have won him the affection of readers reviewers and-dare we say it-booksellers alike Fans can breathe a sigh of relief because Thursday Next-or at least one of her-is back At a time of great unrest in the BookWorld only the ace literary detective can avert a devastating Genre War-thing is Thursday has vanished Now the written Thursday must answer the call save the Bookworld evade capture and find the actual Thursday With a clockwork Butler in tow and Men in Plaid as well as her Designated Love Interest in pursuit she must reluctantly agree to journey up the mysterious Metaphoric River for answers Thursdays zany investigations continue with Jasper Ffordes latest bestseller The Woman Who Died A Lot Visit jasperffordecom for a ffull window into the Ffordian world.