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Mad MabelSally Hepworth

Characters in Mad Mabel

9 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick

    A prickly, fiercely independent eighty-one-year-old who was once notorious as "Mad Mabel" and has hidden that past for decades.

Antagonists

  • Joan (Mad Mabel)

    A litigious, suspicious neighbour on Kenny Lane who digs into Elsie's past.

  • Elliott Waller

    Mabel's controlling father, at the centre of the events that shaped her childhood.

Supporting characters

  • Persephone (Mad Mabel)

  • Daphne (Mad Mabel)

    A friend from Mabel's childhood who resurfaces in her memories of the past.

  • Peter (Mad Mabel)

    Elsie's kind neighbour on Kenny Lane.

  • Cecily (Mad Mabel)

    Mabel's aunt, who gave her a stable, loving home during a difficult childhood.

  • Vanessa (Mad Mabel)

    Cecily's lifelong companion, a librarian who fosters young Mabel's love of books.

  • Mary Fitzpatrick

    Mabel's emotionally volatile mother.