Posted by Peter Ceresole on July 02, 2011 at 00:26:26 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Nancy and Peggy posted by Magnus Smith on June 17, 2011 at 02:58:51:
I agree the matching of names to the Altounyans does not suggest their personalities matched - they said so themselves.
Yes. He was writing fiction, after all, and a novelist has to be allowed to invent wholesale- otherwise, why not just write history books?
But I was always struck by how accurate he was about Roger; all the jokes from the others about how he liked steam ships and motors, and then it turns out that years later he flew in the RAF and did asthma drug research.