Extrait :
Your new novel opens with Detective Thursday, now in her 50s, recovering from a car accident and unable to slug it out with the bad guys the way she used to. That seems grimly realistic for a fanciful character who can enter classic novels and rewrite their endings.
It’s going against the rather ludicrous notion that our action heroes — like James Bond and Bourne — have these fights and fall out of cars and airplanes and motorcycles and then just sort of brush themselves off and walk away. I thought, “Well, no, she’s been in a car accident, and it’s going to be quite painful.” The last book took place all in the BookWorld, and I thought, “I’m going to have this one take place all in the real world.” It is really a domestic potboiler about dealing with issues that her teenage children have. It’s just that, because it’s a Thursday Next book, the issues are mildly unusual, to say the least.