Readers of fiction in general tend to love stories that feature partnerships. Morse and Lewis, Pooh and Piglet, Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander, Jane Eyre and Edward Rochester, Mole and Ratty – the list goes on and on.
How does a novelist go about creating a great partnership?
Although partnerships in fiction (and of course in life) don’t always need to be romantic, there can often be an undercurrent of attraction between the characters involved. The will-they-won’t-they-ever-get-on-withit scenario is a familiar feature of novels in which two people are obliged
