Whitby and feeling scared.

What’s the best kind of ancillary female character? Those that get on with their lives off the page. While the hero’s busy saving the world, getting thrown into dungeons, beaten up and starved, they don’t sit around mooning for him. They pick themselves up, deal with the consequences of the unplanned pregnancy and move on. Robin Hobb’s Molly is a classic from her Assassins trilogy. She rises from a battered beginning, marries another man whom she grows to love, creates her ow

The unreality of some fiction.