Matt Whyman is a bestselling author, also known for his work as an advice columnist for numerous teenage magazines.He has written two novels for adults, Man or Mouse and Columbia Road, as well as both fiction and non-fiction for teenagers, including Superhuman, XY, Boy Kills Man, XY:100, The Wild, the So Below trilogy, Inside the Cage and Goldstrike. His latest novel is The Savages.
One entry on Whyman's top ten list of unusual fictional families, as told to the Guardian:
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony SnicketRead about another family on the list.
The Baudelaire parents might be dead here, killed in a suspicious house fire, but it's their distant cousin, Count Olaf, with designs on the family inheritance, who makes sure that life for the three children will never be the same again. Across a wonderfully inventive collection of books, Violent, Klaus and Sunny strive to outwit Olaf's cunning efforts, while the reader is introduced to Mr Snicket's own distinctly twisted family tree.
A Series of Unfortunate Events is on John Mullan's list of ten of the best poisonings in literature.
Also see: Jami Attenberg's ten most dysfunctional families in literature; Simon Mason's top ten fictional families; Rachel Seiffert's top ten books about troubled families; Jennifer Lynn Barnes's top ten supernatural families; and Pete Dexter's favorite fiction about families.
--Marshal Zeringue
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