Under The Net - Characters

Characters

  • James Donaghue (Jake), a writer and translator in his early thirties
  • Peter O'Finney (Finn), a distant cousin
  • Magdalen Casement (Madge), a typist living on Earls Court Road
  • Samuel Starfield (Sammy), a wealthy bookmaker
  • Mrs Tinckham, a chain-smoking, cat-loving shopkeeper near Charlotte Street
  • Dave Gellman, a Jewish anti-Metaphysical philosopher, living on Goldhawk Road
  • Lefty Todd, leader of the New Independent Socialist Party
  • Anna Quentin, a singer
  • Sadie Quentin, a film star
  • Hugo Belfounder, a fireworks manufacturer and film magnate
  • Ward Matron; Sister Piddingham; Stitch, a hospital porter
  • Mister Mars, a 14-year-old Alsatian, the star of many popular animal movies
  • Jean-Pierre Breteuil, a French writer whose novels include:
    • Le Rossignol de Bois ("The Wooden Nightingale")
    • Les Pierres de l'Amour ("Stones of Love")
    • Nous les Vainqueurs ("We who Vanquished")
  • Homer K. Pringsheim (H.K.), an American film magnate

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