Which Book Character do you long to be?

Jo in Little Women

Feisty Scarlett O’ Hara.

But I would give up yearning for boring old Ashley Wilkes, and make the most of big, bad but gorgeous Rhett Butler, who adores me, but I am too blinkered to see it.

P.S. Gone With The Wind, of course.

Taggie Rupert-Black

(Jilly Cooper is my comfort author)

Jane Eyre. She was so strong and never wavered in her principles.

Jack Reacher. (Not with Tom Cruise in mind!).

Scarlet O'hara from Gone With The Wind but would realise that Rhett was the one. My second choice would be Jo from Little Women.

Lucia from the EF Benson books about life in Tilling.

I’m with you on Cassandra Mortmain keepcalmandcavachon, I Capture the Castle is my favourite book of all time too. Otherwise, I think I’d like to be Flora Poste from Cold Comfort Farm - so focussed, so organised and determined to make her own destiny.

Elinor Dashwood - the 'Sense' half of 'Sense and Sensibility'.

When I was a child, I always wanted to be Heidi.
Yes to Jo March (though I haven't read LW since I was 12) or Elizabeth Bennet - what is it with 2nd daughters?
I love Jane Eyre but I'd never have got over all that childhood trauma.
Kay Scarpetta? Too much blood.
These are all lovely people with interesting lives. I like the idea of Jack Reacher, but he's got no home.
Michael Connelly's Hieronymus Bosch it is, if I can get over losing Mother at a young age.

I would love to be Miss Marple. The Joan Hickson version.

I don't know! ... but most definitely not Bathsheba Everdene who ended up with "whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you" - Mr. Boring - Gabriel Oak!

Another Scarlett O'Hara...... I like to think that "Tomorrow is another day
.Feisty strong-minded and knew what she wanted.

My choice of Rhett would have been Gregory Peck

I'd love to be Elizabeth Bennet .... and marry Mr Darcy

I'd also like to be Anne Cleeve's Vera - where women of acertain age are respected professionals and take no nonsense from anyone

Part of me would like to be Pippi Longstocking and just do what I want

Mr. Darcy; I get Elizabeth Bennet (and I'm loaded).

I’d like to be happy, carefree, loving, motherly Ma Larkin from The Darling Buds of May or maybe it would be better to be Mariette and have Ma as my cosy mum.

Jo March for me too.

Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo .
I'd just love to be as fearless and strong as she is .

My mid circles round several candidates but rests with Jo March.

Emma Woodhouse.

I'm such an over thinker about what I do and people's reactions to me, whereas Emma is kind, confident and oblivious.

Juliet27

I’d like to be happy, carefree, loving, motherly Ma Larkin from The Darling Buds of May or maybe it would be better to be Mariette and have Ma as my cosy mum.

Yes, that’s a brilliant choice 👍🏻

Haha grumppa