next, thursday (fictitious character)

While the Stupidity Surplus overflows in England, literary detective Thursday Next deals with her defiant assistant, who insists on turning classic literature into reality television, and must also find a way to motivate her teenage son and smooth out the mess being made by the Council of Genres.

Thursday Next faces a new set of problems in the BookWorld, both at home and at work, and struggles to keep her wits as she navigates the treacherous world around her.

Thursday Next, an English detective who mingles--literally--in the world of fiction, seeks to have her husband resurrected when her hands become full with her toddler son and her new companion, Prince Hamlet, and finds herself juggling Shakespeare clones and trying to save the world through a high-stakes croquet tournament.

Thursday Next, an English detective who mingles, literally, in literature, escapes to a place far from her job protecting the classics--a never-published pulp fiction novel--to spend the rest of her pregnancy and finds herself battling crime once again, and protecting herself from a murderer.

Thursday Next, an English detective who mingles--literally--in the world of fiction, seeks to have her husband resurrected when her hands become full with her toddler son and her new companion, Prince Hamlet, and finds herself juggling Shakespeare clones and trying to save the world through a high-stakes croquet tournament.