• A happy child who lives in the 1860's British country-side and has everything a child needs.
• A harp player in the 1920's Paris, goes to cafés where she smokes cigarettes and talks about literature.
• A teenage girl in the 1960's, a bit like Jenny Mellor, who later goes to Oxford. To read English books.
• A teenage girl, a witch, goes to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (in the 1990's).
• Jane Eyre
• Esther Greenwood

• Copenhagen
• Iceland
• London
• New York
• Oxford
• Paris
• Scotland
• Stockholm

fictional

• Narnia
• Diagon Alley, Hogsmeade, Forbbiden Forrest, etc.

• Esther Greenwood (The Bell Jar)
• Luna Lovegood and Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
• Amélie Poulain (Amélie)
• the Lisbon sisters (The Virgin Suicides)
• Matilda Wormwood (Matilda)
• Jenny and Jack Mellor (An Education)
• The Caterpillar (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
• Cassie Ainsworth (Skins)
• Billy Elliot (Billy Elliot)
• Lucy Pevensie (Chronicles of Narnia)
• Harry Potter, Remus Lupin and Albus Dumbeldore (Harry Potter)

• a house, filled with books (I don't care how big it is, as far as it's full of books)
• Diptyque candles and beauty products
• lovely old-fashioned kitchen
• my father's drawings hanging on the walls
• old clawfoot tub in the bathroom
• a cat (or maybe 24 of them)
• big garden with trees and wild flowers
• a bicycle

or:

• Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

sounds:

• heavy rain and thunder
• fire crackling
• Tchaikovsky's Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and Leaving Hogwarts by John Williams
• turning newspapers' pages

smells:

• burn out candles
• freshly mown grass
• Penguin Popular Classics' pages
• Idylle, Guerlain

• The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
• The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
• Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Caroll
• Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
• The Bad Beggining (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1), Lemony Snicket
• Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov