Goodreads asked Paul Tudor Owen:

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

Paul Tudor Owen There are those books you love reading because you enjoy spending time with the characters in that particular setting so much. I remember as a teenager racing through Another Country by James Baldwin and thinking these musicians, actors and writers living their turbulent lives in 1950s Greenwich Village were just the coolest people in the world. Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye, again in New York, that was another one for me at that age – he would be unbearable to have round for a cup of tea now though.

You’d also have a memorable afternoon with the cloistered university students in Donna Tartt’s Secret History – there’s that fantastic line where Henry is “quite startled to learn from me than men had walked on the moon … ‘How did they get there? When did this happen?’”

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