The Life Impossible
The Life ImpossibleMatt Haig
Characters in The Life Impossible
4 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Grace Winters
A retired math teacher in her seventies who has lost a husband, daughter, and son in quick succession; the novel follows her through grief toward an unexpected transformation.
Antagonists
Art Butler
A real estate developer whose plans to commercialise Ibiza threaten the island Grace has come to protect.
Supporting characters
Christina van der Berg
Grace's deceased former colleague, whose death on Ibiza and bequest of her house there sets the novel in motion.
Maurice Augustine
Grace's former student, struggling with his own despair; the novel is framed as the emails Grace writes to him.