White Is for Witching

Eliot's twin, who has pica and is drawn into the will of the house she lives in. Her disappearance frames the novel.

The xenophobic bed-and-breakfast at 29 Barton Road, Dover, which narrates part of the book and turns on outsiders.

Miranda's twin brother, one of the book's first-person narrators.

Miranda's friend and love interest from Cambridge, adopted by white British parents, and one of the few who sees the house for what it is. A first-person narrator.

The Yoruba housekeeper and cook at the bed-and-breakfast, versed in juju, who stands up to the house.