Robbie Brodie

Character from Work in Progress by Kat Mackenzie

The literary tour's Scottish bus driver and reluctant guide — a historian with a devilish grin who built this tour company to honor his dead mother, then had the audacity to fall for the most chaotic passenger he's ever had.

Also known as: Robbie, Brodie

What They Know

• The complete literary history of every tour stop — which castle inspired which novel, where Burns wrote what, why Whitby matters to Gothic fiction
• Every back road, shortcut, and hidden gem between Edinburgh and the Welsh border
• His mother's favorite passages from the books that shaped the tour route — he can quote them from memory
• How to fix a temperamental bus engine with improvised tools and Scottish stubbornness
• The specific way grief reshapes itself over time — how it stops being a wound and becomes a room you carry
• Which of the elderly regulars has which dietary requirement, medical need, and preferred seat on the bus

Connections

• enemies_to_lovers — alice
• operates — the_bus
• friend_of — helena
• friend_of — flossie
• son_of — mrs_brodie

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