The Forgotten Garden
The Forgotten GardenKate Morton
Characters in The Forgotten Garden
6 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Cassandra Ryan
A grieving Brisbane antiques dealer who inherits a Cornish property from her grandmother and follows the trail of her family's past.
Nell O'Connor
Cassandra's grandmother, found alone as a child on an Australian wharf in 1913 and raised by adoptive parents; her search for her origins drives the story.
Eliza Makepeace
A clever London girl of the early 1900s and the author of a book of dark fairy tales; her story forms the oldest thread of the novel.
Supporting characters
Rose Mountrachet
A sickly, lonely girl of the Mountrachet family at Blackhurst Manor who becomes Eliza's cousin and friend.
Linus Mountrachet
Rose's brother, a pious and cold figure at Blackhurst Manor who clashes with Eliza.
Nathaniel Walker
An American artist connected to the Mountrachet household and to the secrets of Nell's past.