Landen Parke-Laine

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Landen Parke-Laine is a minor character in Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series of novels.

Landen met Thursday and her brother Anton in the Crimean War, when he fell in love with Thursday and became Anton's best friend. However, in the disastrous battle that later became known as the "Charge of the Light-Armored Brigade", Anton was killed, Landen lost a leg, and Landen reluctantly confessed that Anton had actually allowed the British to lose the battle by accidentally heading into the wrong battlefield As a result, Thursday left him, and refused to speak to him for ten years. Eventually, however, in the end of The Eyre Affair, she decided she was still in love with him, and agreed to be his wife.

Landen is an award-winning novelist whose books include Bad Sofa, Memoirs of A Crimean Veteran and Once Were Scoundrels. In the second book in the series, Lost in a Good Book he is eradicated from space-time by the malign Goliath Corporation, and does not reappear until half-way through the fourth book, Something Rotten, though he does make appearances in Thursday's dreams.

His name is one of Fforde's trademark puns: in the British edition of Monopoly, Park Lane is the second to last house on the board and a good one to own. It may or may not be a good thing to "land on Park Lane" depending on your position in the game. As additions to this pun, Landen's late father is named "Billden Parke-Laine" and his mother is named "Houson Parke-Laine".

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