I must be getting old. These competitions increasingly puzzle me. What on earth would the characters chat about? But some of you, sharper-witted, will be able to help.
No. 2820: postscript
Barbara Hardy’s recent Dorothea’s Daughter and Other Nineteenth Century Postscripts is a collection of short stories in which Professor Hardy imagines significant conversations between characters some time after their novel has ended. These postscripts enter into dialogues with the original narratives by developing suggestions in the text rather than changing the plot in any way. How about other such postscripts to any well-known novel? Please email entries, of up to 150 words, to
lucy@spectator.co.uk by midday on 16 October.