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Book cover of If He Had Been With Me
If He Had Been With MeLaura NowlinIf He Had Been with Me, book 1

Characters in If He Had Been With Me

4 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Autumn Davis

    The narrator. A quiet, bookish girl who spends high school on the fringes of the social order and in a long relationship with Jamie, while never quite letting go of the boy next door.

  • Finny Smith

    Phineas 'Finny' Smith, Autumn's next-door neighbour and childhood best friend, born a week after her. Kind and well-liked, he becomes a soccer player and drifts into the popular crowd.

Supporting characters

  • Jamie (If He Had Been with Me)

    Autumn's boyfriend through most of high school — patient with her depression and genuinely good to her, which is part of what makes her feelings for Finny so hard to face.

  • Sylvie (If He Had Been with Me)

    A cheerleader and Finny's girlfriend. She is in the car with him on the August night the book keeps circling back to.