Sylvia Frumkin is an unlikely heroine, voraciously greedy (for food and for attention), overweight, hostile and assaultive.

Author Shanna Swendson pens a delightful, whimsical tale about an unlikely heroine who saves the day against all odds - and oddities.

Yet she would have been hard-pressed to dream up a more unlikely heroine or a tale as compelling as the story of her own life.

The prospect of coming out of this the unlikely heroine was simply too attractive to be turned down.

It is 1962, and this eldest of four children in a British family living in Italy is a pathetic and unlikely heroine.

Yet Ms. Burke has found a muse in this tortured woman, who is the story's unlikely heroine.

Brandy, an unlikely and unlikable heroine, has a bad attitude, a poor complexion and far too much flab to be appealing.

Brynnie: 'A suspenseful tale with an inspiring and unlikely heroine, it raised hairs on the back of my neck'

Specialising in 'chavs and slappers' the actress Sheridan Smith has created some pretty unlikely heroines in her time.

Dr. Hopkins, the reluctant feminist, seems an unlikely heroine.