Reading Copy Book Blog

Toni Jordan, whose novel Addition was just selected by Richard and Judy for their summer reading list, picks her top 10 flawed romantic heronines

1. Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
2. Prudence Merridew in The Perfect Rake by Anne Gracie
3. Ayla in The Valley of Horses by Jean M Auel
4. Lucinda Leplastrier in Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
5. Dorothea Brooke in Middlemarch by George Eliot
6. Harriet Vane in Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers
7. Lisa Palmer by What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn
8. Christabel LaMotte and Maud Bailey in Possession by AS Byatt
9. Miss Haversham in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
10. Esther Evans in Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies

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