Patty Scholes

Next in my series of occasional Character Sketches is Patty Scholes. Yeah, she’s the matriarch of the Scholes clan, collecting the waifs and strays of Trotterwell … the question is, are all her brood technically human?

Red-haired woman with a rolling pin.

We first meet Patty properly in No Fae Back Now, but she was originally a background character in Argana Zeit Collects Snow Toads. Ever since her first mention…

“…Patty was well known around Trotterwell, for both better and worse. Patty herself was big-hearted, but whether her family consisted of pesky delinquents or the high-spirited go-getters of the future was largely a question of who you asked.”

… I’ve wanted to bring her back in a bigger role. So, when it came to the novel, I knew she had to get in there. She distrusts authority, takes no nonsense from anybody, and has a formidable talent for dealing with unruly teenagers.

Like MacGillycuddy, we get the feeling that there’s some wild secrets in her back story -and there are! I’ve got 15 pages of flashbacks in my ‘deleted scenes’ bucket. One day, one day!