White Is for Witching
Characters in White Is for Witching
8 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Miranda Silver
Eliot's twin, who has pica and is drawn into the will of the house she lives in. Her disappearance frames the novel.
Antagonists
The Silver House
The xenophobic bed-and-breakfast at 29 Barton Road, Dover, which narrates part of the book and turns on outsiders.
Supporting characters
Eliot Silver
Miranda's twin brother, one of the book's first-person narrators.
Ore Lind
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.
Sade (White Is for Witching)
The Yoruba housekeeper and cook at the bed-and-breakfast, versed in juju, who stands up to the house.
Luc Dufresne
Father of Miranda and Eliot, who runs the family bed-and-breakfast.
Lily Silver
Miranda and Eliot's mother, a photojournalist whose death in Haiti opens the family's grief.
Anna Silver (White Is for Witching)
Miranda's great-grandmother, the earliest of the Silver women bound up with the house.