Who is Charles Darke from The Child in Time and what is their importance? The_Child_in_Time English & Literature Charles Darke | The Child in Time

Charles Darke is an official at Gott's publishing house. He has been assigned the task of convincing Stephen to allow his first book, "Lemonade," to be published as a children's book. Charles eventually writes the book that is adopted as the government's official stand on child care and later retires from public life. His death in the woods, is seemingly a death by choice.