Q5 Who is your favourite character and why?

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Who is your favourite character and why?

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As this is a biography the only person we really know is the author and he was not my favourite person.

The person I most liked in the novel was the Arab who made him feel safe after the scary shopping trip.

[Sallys]

Book wrote: "As this is a biography the only person we really know is the author and he was not my favourite person.

The person I most liked in the novel was the Arab who made him feel safe after the scary sho..."
I liked Amos but I also liked his father.

[Kristel]

I did not like all the characters. I didn't especially like his mother but then she was an unhappy person. I liked Amos's father and I think I liked one set of his grandparents.

[Jen]

It's and interesting question because they were more than book characters -- based on real people with their complexities and positive and negative characteristics. I felt incredibly sad for his mother and liked her during moments when she wasn't in the clutches of her depression. In fact, in many ways this book read like a love letter to his mother. At times I liked his father and other times found him irritating - and I disliked the fact that he carried on with other women.

[Pip]

I identified with Oz, the only child. I also enjoyed the description of the grandmothers, especially the gibe when one criticised the sweetness of the food obliquely by saying that her cooking would sweeten anything, and the other retorted, tartly, except you!

[Diane]

Jen wrote: "It's and interesting question because they were more than book characters -- based on real people with their complexities and positive and negative characteristics. I felt incredibly sad for his mo..."

I also felt incredibly sad for the mother. I kept wishing she would have been born in another time period where she could have got proper mental health. I also agree with you that this was a love letter to his mother as she played such a big part of the story that he chose to tell.

[Lynn]

I really do not have a favorite character.