What the Wind Knows
What the Wind KnowsAmy Harmon
Characters in What the Wind Knows
5 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Anne Gallagher
A modern-day writer who travels to Ireland to scatter her grandfather's ashes and is pulled back to 1921, where she is mistaken for a woman of the same name who vanished years earlier.
Supporting characters
Thomas Smith
A doctor and guardian to young Eoin who cares for Anne after her arrival in 1921 and becomes drawn into both her secret and the fight for Irish independence.
Eoin Gallagher
A young boy in Thomas Smith's care in 1921 who will grow up to become the present-day Anne's grandfather.
Declan Gallagher
The original Anne Gallagher's husband, killed during the Easter Rising fighting at the GPO.
Michael Collins
Real-life Irish revolutionary leader who appears in the novel as Anne and Thomas navigate the fight for Irish independence.