Thursday Next is the protagonist in the story. She has arrived home from her assignments in Book World, where fiction is like real life. Her job is to keep the stories straight. What she finds in Swindon is a dictator from fiction, a giant corporation trying to take over the world, an assassin attempting to shoot her, her formerly eradicated husband and the responsibility to save the world by making the Swindon Mallets win the SuperHoop championship.
