For details about the key characters in the book, click the links below.
- Dora Metcalf – main character
- John Metcalf – her husband
- Jeanie Stewart – young woman who is helping the Metcalfs to pack up their home
- Hugh Cass – Dora’s fiancé, killed at Gallipoli in 1915
- Everard Greene – Dora’s cousin, co-founder of BTM
- Hilary Greene – Dora’s deaf sister