As part of the launch, we've been told to imagine we could be someone else for a day. Just one? asks I. Oh, all right. I keep trying to be clever but really the person who, oddly, won't leave me alone is Jo March. She's not even a real person. Does that matter? I don't think so - the whole thing is predicated on magic so if I want to be a character out of a book -well who's going to stop me? Huh? Who?
this is the cover of the book I had - it was one of those hard crunchy covers. Remember them?
Jo is one of the four sisters in Little Women. I adore her. Why? Because she is a writer. She works her head off to be one, giving up all sorts of opportunities at advancement (marriage? to a rich boy?) and I like that. I don't think I'd have loved living in that time but a day won't hurt. I want to be up in her attic room figuring out plots and entanglements while my sisters bother me for my brush or my corset stays.Or, maybe, Colette! Yes, Colette - a real writer who lived in those crazy lovely days of Paris - writing, loving, gardening, raising shar peis (Hoagy is half shar pei). She was on the stage and loved her mum and had a few husbands - perhaps I am her!
Or...Deary Blossom - I want to sing. I really want to sing.
For Willow Watts, life has settled into a predictably dull routine: days behind the counter at her father's antique shop and nights watching TV, as the pension-aged residents of Britain's Ugliest Village bed down for yet another early night. But everything changes when a YouTube video of Willow's epically embarrassing Marilyn Monroe impersonation gets millions of hits after a viewer spots Marilyn's ghostly image in a frame.
Instantly, Willow's town is overrun with fans flocking to see the 'new Marilyn'. Egged on by the villagers -- whose shops and businesses are cashing in -- Willow embraces her new identity, dying her hair platinum and ramming herself full of cakes to achieve Marilyn's legendary curves.
But when a former flame returns seeking the old Willow, Willow must decide: can she risk her stardom and her village's newfound fortune on love, or is being Marilyn her ticket to happiness?
Instantly, Willow's town is overrun with fans flocking to see the 'new Marilyn'. Egged on by the villagers -- whose shops and businesses are cashing in -- Willow embraces her new identity, dying her hair platinum and ramming herself full of cakes to achieve Marilyn's legendary curves.
But when a former flame returns seeking the old Willow, Willow must decide: can she risk her stardom and her village's newfound fortune on love, or is being Marilyn her ticket to happiness?
Buy a copy of Willow on on Amazon.com for $2.99. Paperback coming in November!
7 comments:
Awesome choice! I love how Jo chose to follow what she wanted to do than what society dictated. :)
Congratulations to Talli! Looks like a fun read!
It's difficult to pick just one, isn't it? I had a hard time too.
ahh, I'm loving this blogfest. Mine's tomorrow, but I have to say, I didn't think of Jo March! I've never forgiven her for not marrying Laurie... LOL! :D
Jo March is a great choice, but I have to say I'd go for Colette. What a life she led!
Thanks so much for taking part. I really appreciate it! And I'm sorry I'm just popping by now. I flaked out early last night! xx
I really wish I could sing, too!
Jo March was my favorite sister too, when I read the book. When I later saw the film with Kathrine Hepburn on the telly it just confirmed it, Jo was the one for me.
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