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Afterwards, Thursday returns home and finds her father there.

She is confused until she realizes that, being a time traveller, he will sacrifice himself much later in his future, even though it was just a little while ago in hers.

Now that she is wanted by Goliath, the ChronoGuard, and Aornis, her father offers to place her in an alternate reality for a while ( ironically implied to be our reality ) while she gives birth to Landen's baby.

Refusing her father's offer, Thursday travels to a book in The Well of Lost Plots -- a subdivision of the Great Library that contains unpublished and unfinished works — in order to take a year's maternity leave with her memory of Landen.

She establishes a home in a moored flying boat ( a Short Sunderland ), having traded places with the plucky sidekick sergeant of a police procedural mystery, implied to be Sergeant Mary Mary, from one of Fforde's other works, The Big Over Easy.