Characters in Giant's bread

Supporting characters

• Vernon Deyre

  Driven by an inner compulsion toward music that repeatedly collides with his capacity for ordinary love and loyalty.

• Nell Vereker

  Timid and drawn to security and comfort, she embodies the conventional happiness Vernon cannot fully give himself to.

• Jane Harding

  Sees the artist in Vernon more clearly than anyone, complicating his life with a different kind of devotion.

• Sebastian Levinne

  Jewish, perceptive and steadfast, often portrayed as the most sympathetic of the central group.

• Joe (Josephine) Waite

  Independent and rebellious, a champion of the weak who resists conventional expectations placed on women.

• Boris Groen

  A public identity whose connection to the true composer frames the novel's opening.