Hazel Linden

Hazel is the novel’s protagonist. In the present plotline, she is thirty. When the novel begins, Hazel works at Hogan’s Rare Bookshop and is dating Barnaby, a professor. She lives in Bloomsbury, her childhood neighborhood. With her new job at Sotheby’s and impending engagement, Hazel feels her life is changing for the better. She hardly predicts it will turn upside down, as it does with the discovery of Peggy Andrews’ Whisperwood.

Hazel’s quest to find Flora upends her life and forces her to question her choices. Two choices Hazel rethinks are her career path and relationship trajectory. Hazel realizes she would rather work at Hogan’s and pursue writing than go along with the pretentious job Barnaby’s father secured for her. She also finally recognizes that she has always loved Harry and that he is the person she wishes to spend the...