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Characters in This Book Made Me Think of You

3 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Tilly Nightingale

    A London book editor whose husband Joe died of cancer; over the course of a year she works through twelve books he chose for her before his death.

Supporting characters

  • Alfie Lane

    Owner of the Book Lane bookshop in Primrose Hill, who hands Tilly each of Joe's chosen books and becomes a steady presence, and eventual romantic interest, in her first year of grief.

  • Joe Carter (This Book Made Me Think of You)

    Tilly's husband, who died of cancer and arranged, before his death, for her to receive twelve books with handwritten letters over her first year without him.