: Is there a name for stories which weave initially separate viewpoints into a single plot? Is there a name for the technique where a writer introduces several separate characters, develops each

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I just read a book called "Mrs. Queen Takes the Train," a little "what if" about Queen Elizabeth. Before the story comes together, we get the stories of six different household retainers and other people, and it only becomes a united story about halfway through the book.

It's a delightful little fantasy, by the way --

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It's called a "braided novel" or "braided narrative", because you have several points of view, or storylines, merging into a whole later on.

For example, George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones books are like this.

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It seems as if you are describing a story like Les Miserables which has various subplots, but it main thread is the story of Jean Valjean, which is like a story within a story Is this the type of story you are going for?

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