Parry has a Ph.D in English literature and her love of the subject animates the book. Unfortunately, he’s an English professor, so this ends up happening rather a lot-but the trouble doesn’t really start until someone else starts summoning fictional characters and sending them out into the world. Charlie can read characters into existence when he concentrates closely on a text. Narrator Rob is perfectly content with his ordinary life in Wellington, but his unexciting existence is upended when his brother Charlie returns from abroad. That idea developed into Parry’s debut novel, The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep. So if different people brought the same character out of a book each version would look completely different. “We were talking about literary theory and how maybe if you brought them out you could bring out your own particular interpretation,” she says. Parry came up with the perfect power for an English major: bringing characters (or even objects) out of a book and into the real world. If you could have any magical power, what would it be? In discussing this question with a class, H.G.
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