I really admire the world you created for the Thursday Next series and especially loved The Well of Lost Plots. Do you have any other characters who may come out to play in future books? Any character you desperately want to feature but he/she just won't play nicely with the story you have in mind?

Jasper Fforde Thank you, Sally. Oddly, the one character who would not play was Jane Eyre herself. The book stalled for almost a year as I tried to make Jane a partner of Thursday, kicking butt around Thornfield - but giving words and actions to her just didn't seem to work. In the end, I just leave her alone and have her say only a few words of mine - for the most part she is just doing the 'First Person Narrative' thing in her book, and thus cannot be messed with. I didn't feel the same way about Pilot the dog, Edward, Bertha and Grace Poole. Perhaps because they are not so complex.

Some books are so good I wouldn't use them. Having Scout Finch in a Thursday book is just adorning myself with borrowed , better, brighter, feathers, but I did feel that Boo Radley could make an appearance - and he does, at the Bookie awards in (I think) TN3.

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