Goodreads asked Phil Dwyer:

If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Phil Dwyer Hmm... Tempting to reply Flatland, a two-dimensional world created by the deliciously named Edwin Abbott Abbott. He was a schoolmaster, mathematician and theologian who wrote about a character (Square) who traveled through many different-dimensional worlds. Flatland was the two-dimensional world. But then, you have the sense that there would be a very limited scope for romance in such a world. So while it appeals to my sense of whimsy and to the mathematical part of my brain I think I would prefer a different fictional world.

So, if I were looking for a place to go and relax, a place where the biggest problems are inevitably who gets the girl and can our hero avoid incarceration for some minor offence, I think I'd travel to the world of Bertie Wooster (P.G. Wodehouse). There you'd be guaranteed stylish clothing, plenty of leisure, weekends in the country, and the best food and wine money could buy. And if you ever got bored with the pedestrian conversation you could always go and talk to Jeeves.

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