Most bestselling fiction isn’t about ordinary people like you and me – true or false? It’s a fact that plenty of well-respected novels feature central characters who are intrepid adventurers, determined crime fighters, famous actors, millionaires (or even billionaires: the late Duchess of Windsor is supposed to have observed that no one can ever be too rich), hot-shot private investigators, war heroes, and so on. They’re the kinds of people many of us love to read
