Amazon.com description: Product Description: Jasper Fforde's exuberant return tot he fantastical BookWorld opens during a time of great unrest. All-out Genre war is rumbling, and the BookWorld desperately needs a heroine like Thursday Next. But with the real Thursday apparently retired to the REal world, the Council of Genres turns to the written Thursday. The Council wants her to pretend to be the real Thursday and travel as a peacekeeping emissary tot he warring factions. A trip up the mighty Metaphoric River becomes-- a trip that will reveal a fiendish plot that threatens the very fabric of the BookWorld itself.