Peggy Turner is Ellie's maternal grandmother and the person who raised her after Eloise's mother died by suicide. She knows that Ellie sometimes sees her mother's ghost in mirrors and later celebrates Ellie's success at the fashion show alongside John.
A young dam worker named Tanya Komarova whom Yevgraf suspects is the long-lost daughter of Yuri and Lara. She was separated from her family during bombardment when Komarovsky let go of her hand. She carries a balalaika, which confirms Yevgraf's theory about her lineage.
A woman whose hair has turned white from grief, though the reason for her grief is not explained in the excerpt. Nagel’s violin playing moves her, and she hears in the music what she calls her friend’s wounded soul. He visits her late at night, asks whether she thinks he is always lying, and tells her he loves her.
Ellen Huggins is Richard Huggins's wife and an active participant in their deception and imprisonment of vulnerable girls. She nurses Terry while secretly drugging him, helps mislead Mary, and remains involved in the couple's hidden crimes. Her apparent domestic kindness conceals her role as a major antagonist.
Aunt Lily shares a Liverpool home with Stella and Uncle Vernon, serving as one of Stella's guardians. Along with Vernon, she discloses Stella's history to O'Hara when he visits them, helping him learn about Stella's long-missing mother and the connection to his own past.
A pregnant young woman from Liverpool who moves to London seeking a father for her unborn child. She works at a boutique, moves in with her coworker Caroline, and meets Peter. After a makeover to impress him, she discovers he is a serial killer, attempts to flee but is locked inside, and ultimately disappears.
Eve is the Trader’s mute foster-child, traumatized after witnessing her parents’ murder. Sold to La Bete, she resists him, saves his life after his injury, learns to hunt, and later returns to him by choice. Their relationship changes from coercion and distrust to mutual dependence, though she remains emotionally conflicted.
Seventeen-year-old protagonist navigating adolescence, poverty, and an unplanned pregnancy. After a brief romance with sailor Jimmy, she quits school, moves into a loft, and takes in Geoffrey. She struggles with her self-centered mother Helen's absence, rejects Geoffrey's marriage proposal but accepts his care, and ultimately faces motherhood alone.
A young woman living on a functioning tube train who becomes pregnant, is married off to Captain Martin against her will, gives birth to a dead baby, and later becomes pregnant with a healthy child after the war's mutations.
Mrs. Deakin is part of Kevin Deakin's family and joins the village in celebrating his unexpected return from the war. She participates in efforts to restore him to normal domestic life, but Kevin Deakin reacts angrily to the family's inability to understand how deeply the battlefield has changed him.
Catherine, known as Cat, is fiercely independent and is dating Charlie Batey when she becomes attracted to Ricky Flint. She agrees to date Ricky and be intimate with him, but refuses to stop seeing Charlie or accept Ricky's demands, noting that they are not engaged. After Ricky attacks Charlie, she supports Ricky's claim in court that they are engaged, and they decide to make it true.
Colleague of Kinsdale and McAllister at the NATO computer facility. Her apartment serves as a meeting point where colleagues confront Kinsdale about his dangerous, unapproved revenge mission.
Rita Tushingham has 66 screen credits in a career dating back to 1961. Signature works include Last Night in Soho, Mysteries, Straight On Till Morning. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.
