Characters
There's 16-year old Justin, the eldest, a pretty serious type who's used to taking on the role of head of the family. He's not very experienced with the fairer sex, and the battle with his geeky image sometimes masks the fact he's a really nice guy.
Then there’s rebel sister Charlie, whose ambition is to make it as a thrash guitarist, and in stark contrast, Anna, the obsessively tidy mother figure, whose greatest dream is to be Head Prefect.
Wind-up merchant Elliot is the prankster of the family and youngest member he also is the most orange of the group his real name is Jack Mcginn and is ginger but plays a very important role. Debs may be the baby but she is the wisest. She hasn’t spoken since their mother died but seems totally happy. In place of speech she expresses her feelings through drawing, and she is a compulsive knitter
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“There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Philosophy is written in this grand book—I mean the universe—
which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.”
—Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
“My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that’s basically a conservative view of life.”
—Jane Smiley (b. 1949)