I don’t always remember character names.
I’m more likely to remember the novel or their character than their actual name. As such, I don’t necessarily have any names I can think of as particular favourites.
But I can think of two, for different reasons:
In The Prayer Box by Lisa Wingate, the narrator rents a house from Iola Anne Poole. Unfortunately, the first scene shows the narrator finding ninety-one-yar-old Mrs Poole’s body lying on her bed, as though she’d laid down for a nap and didn’t wake up. For obvious reasons, I like that name 🙂
Another name I remember is Paul Ingatius Greatorex from the After the Fire series by English author John Lockley, written in the 1990s. The novels are set in England, and tell the story of a group of misfits brought together after they are some of the few survivors of a global pandemic that kills more than 99% of the world’s population in under a week. Paul’s name stuck with me because of the initials – PIG, which he used to get teased about at school – and because I once saw a book review for After the Fire written by a Paul Ingatius Greatorex, who read the book when he realised he had the same name as one of the main characters.
