Pip in ‘Great Expectations’ (1946)
I think everybody who reads regularly has a literary character or two who , when they come across them, think, ‘that’s just like me’.
I suppose in many ways that’s the secret of success. People, particularly women, loved Bridget Jones, because they thought they recognised themselves in her. Fucked up and scatty though s…
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