The Narrator

This person is a seven-year-old boy who helps correct an imbalance in the forces of the universe. Later in life, he returns to the site where this takes place.

Lettie Hempstock

This person is an eleven-year-old girl who has been eleven years old for a long time. She helps the narrator restore balance to the world.

Mrs. Hempstock

This person helps maintain the balance of forces in the universe with her daughter and mother.

Old Mrs. Hempstock

This person comforts the narrator when he is a child. When he sees her again later, he cannot imagine that she comforted him.

Skarthach of the Keep/ Ursula Monkton

This person is a housekeeper who is also a force of disruption in the universe. She wants to give people what they want. She gives them things that will make them happy for a brief time. Those same things make them...