The Lost Bookshop
The Lost BookshopEvie Woods
Characters in The Lost Bookshop
5 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Opaline Carlisle
A spirited young woman in 1920s London who escapes an arranged marriage, works among rare books in Paris, and later runs a bookshop in Dublin.
Martha (The Lost Bookshop)
A present-day woman who leaves an abusive past for Dublin and takes a live-in housekeeping job in a creaky old house on Ha'penny Lane.
Henry (The Lost Bookshop)
An anxious English scholar who comes to Dublin chasing a lost manuscript and a bookshop that seems to vanish.
Antagonists
Lyndon Carlisle
Opaline's domineering older brother, a wounded First World War veteran who presses her toward a marriage she does not want.
Supporting characters
Madame Bowden
The enigmatic elderly woman who gives Martha a home and a job in her house.