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First Published:
Jul 2005, 400 pages
Paperback:
Jul 2006, 400 pages
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This article relates to The Big Over Easy
Fforde's
first book, The Eyre Affair,
was published in 2001, and was
followed by Lost In A Good
Book (2002), The Well of
Lost Plots (2003) and
Something Rotten (2004). All
revolve around, female
detective, Thursday Next who
lives in a parallel world to our
own where books are paramount,
the Crimean War is still ongoing
and dodos are the pets of
choice.
Fforde says that he felt the
need to take a break and, to
that end, resurrected the
concept for a novel that he'd
first written in 1993-94, which
became The Big Over Easy.
He was planning to publish a
new Thursday Next novel this
year, but I don't see anything
in the publishers catalog for
this year, so presumably any new
"Next" book has been pushed into
next year.
Trivia: The
name, Thursday Next, was
inspired by Fforde's mother who
used to refer to next Thursday
as 'Thursday next'!
This "beyond the book article" relates to The Big Over Easy. It originally ran in July 2005 and has been updated for the
July 2006 paperback edition.
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