Arrietty Clock

Arrietty Clock is the protagonist of The Borrowers book series. She is thirteen years old at the beginning of the first book, and almost seventeen during The Borrowers Aloft.

She is the teenage daughter of Pod and Homily Clock, and a free spirit, not concerned with "Human Beans", nor any danger. She shown to be adventurous and is fond of climbing. As seen in The Borrowers, Arrietty gets to go out borrowing with Pod, but wanders around and gets in contact with a human bean. This results in the family having to move out into the fields and begin wandering in search of a new permanent home.

The ending of Borrowers Aloft implies that Arrietty will someday marry Spiller and travel around by boat, living in a house they built among the tree roots on a riverbank, and send letters on leaves to Pod and Homily. However, the ending of The Borrowers Avenged leaves their relationship in doubt.

In television and film media, she was portrayed by Karen Pearson in the 1973 film, Rebecca Callard in the BBC series, Flora Newbigen in the 1997 film and Aislin Loftus in the 2011 film.