Marina Hyde

You see, you've broken me.

Okay, at number three.

I thought, although she's not that minor, but there's something about her that's brilliant.

In Portrait of a Lady, a Henry James novel, Isabel Archer's friend, Henrietta Stackpole, who's actually sort of amazing because it's whatever it is, it's the late 1800s.

And she is an example of the new woman.

She is a reporter for the New York interviewer.

And she's so sort of modern and she's got great repartee.

I would like to hear more from Henrietta Stackpole, I have to say.

But she's not a tiny part.

So I'm thinking like, okay, these people who have really small parts.

I thought one, someone I've always really been fascinated by in The Great Gatsby is Owl Eyes.

And we see him so little.

Nick Caro meets him in the library at one of Gatsby's parties.

And he's the one who says, look at this whole library.

He went to trouble of getting all these books, but actually they haven't been cut.

The pages haven't been cut.

And so he sees things.

And in some way, he's like a sort of analogue.

for Nick Carraway he's also the only other person who goes to the funeral and I just find him fascinating you don't know much about him but he's he could see through it all as well and maybe because actually Nick Carraway is much more involved as you know how that character is you're not quite sure how complicit is he is in lots of these things our lives I think would be interesting

But then because I recently reread The Secret History because I wanted to listen to The Book Club, our fellow Goldhanger podcast, The Book Club's episode on it, which was brilliant.