I would have said Jo Walton comes closest, but according to Wiki she’s actually a Welsh-born Canadian.
My best guess is Unity Kincaid from Sandman, but that’s not it.
Good guess, though.
I’ve got nothing here at all. Could Google a whole slew of best-seller lists by brute force, but that’s a little more time than I want to invest in this exercise 
And, what you may not have been told, is that there’s no research in Botticelli. It all comes from what we have stored in our noggins. The only research allowed is for the Host to verify information against our DQs . Otherwise, nope.
Quite so, and thanks, Prof. P.
You’re welcome, and I’m still clueless as to this lady.
OK, time’s up. I am
Ursula Todd
Plucky British heroine of Kate Atkinson’s NYT bestsellers Life After Life and A God In Ruins. I’ve read the first (it was very good) but not the second.
Okay. I’ve never read it and never heard of it.
Anyone else?
Our next letter, of course, is
V
Likewise.
Certainly sounds interesting, though!
That book didn’t cross my desk either.
IQ1: Did you compose* La forza del destino*?
IQ2: Do you sing lead for Pearl Jam?
IQ3: Were you Mini-me in the Austin Powers movies?
I also hadn’t heard of it.
Which means if bordelond hasn’t heard of it, the hosting for V goes to the person who hosted before EH.
I’ll hold off on answering Knowed Out’s IQs, then. Surprised neither book is apparently known here.
The Amazon listing indicates the protagonist of *A God in Ruins: A Novel * is Teddy Todd, for what it’s worth, so I don’t know that a hypothetical person who’d read only that book would have been able to answer this one.
Didn’t realize I had to respond about whether or not I had heard of the character/book.
No … totally off my radar.
All right. Since no one has heard of Ursula, that means that bordelond hosts the V round.
All right – I have someone in mind.
…
I am V.
IQs:
- Are you a famous Pet Detective?
- Did you write Candide?
- Are you the Roman equivalent of Hesta?