Irvine Welsh has 'saved' his angry and violent character through art and love – tell us which of fiction's bad guys you'd rehabilitate
Irvine Welsh has written a new story for the Big Issue, which features the character Begbie from his classic novel Trainspotting. In this new work, the angry and violent Begbie has been saved by art and love. This is a surprising turnaround for one of fiction's most sociopathic characters, a man who savagely beat up innocent bystanders with worrying levels of enjoyment.
Are there any famous characters in fiction you would like to see rehabilitated? Should Professor Moriarty have a chance to use his considerable intellect for good? Should Bill Sikes be brought back as a nurse? Conversely, are there any famous characters upon whom fortune smiled too brightly? Did you cheer when Helen Fielding announced that she had killed off Mark Darcy? Did you think Emma was too obnoxious to bag the nice Mr Knightley? Tell us which characters you'd like to see later on in life, and what you imagine they would be doing now.