Character from Work in Progress by Kat Mackenzie
Robbie's late mother — the reader, the dreamer, the woman who loved literary Britain enough to drag her son to every landmark until he loved it too. She's gone, but the tour is her memorial.
Mrs. Brodie never appears in the present, but she's the ghost that makes the entire story work. She was the one who loved books, who mapped every literary landmark in Britain, who turned road trips into pilgrimages. Robbie built Pages & Places in her memory, and every stop on the tour is a place she showed him first. Her absence is Robbie's central wound — the grief he carries quietly and deflects with competence. Understanding her is the key to understanding why Robbie drives a rickety bus full of elderly women across the UK instead of doing literally anything else with his life. He does it because she would have loved it, and that's enough.
Known only through Robbie's memories and the tour itself — a woman who saw magic in books and believed every castle had a story worth hearing. Her physical presence is the dog-eared paperbacks Robbie keeps in the bus's glove compartment.
Also known as: Robbie's Mother, Mrs Brodie