The Highton-Smith-Kennington-Jones family
Cecelia Highton-Smith	Alice-Miranda’s doting mother
Aunt Charlotte Highton-Smith	Cecelia’s younger sister and Alice-Miranda’s aunt
Winchesterfield-Downsfordvale Academy for Proper Young Ladies staff
Miss Ophelia Grimm	Headmistress
Mr Aldous Grump	Headmistress’s husband
Miss Livinia Reedy	English teacher
Mr Josiah Plumpton	Science teacher
Mr Cornelius Trout	Music teacher
Winchesterfield-Downsfordvale students
Alice-Miranda Highton-Smith-Kennington-Jones
Millicent Jane McLoughlin-McTavish-McNoughton-McGill	Alice-Miranda’s best friend and room mate
Jacinta Headlington-Bear	Talented gymnast, school’s former second best tantrum thrower and a friend
Sloane Sykes	Former teller of tall tales and a friend
Ashima Divall,	Friends and choir members
Madeline Bloom,
Susannah Dare,
Ivory Hicks
Fayle School for Boys staff
Professor Wallace Winterbottom	Headmaster
Mrs Deidre Winterbottom	Headmaster’s wife
Mr Harold Lipp	English and Drama teacher
Fayle Students
Lucas Nixon	Lawrence Ridley’s son
Septimus Sykes	Sloane Sykes’s brother
George ‘Figgy’ Figworth	Rugby player and choir member
Rufus Pemberley	Choir member
Friends of the Highton-Smith-Kennington-Jones family
Ambrosia Headlington-Bear	Jacinta’s mother
Lucinda Finkelstein	Friend of Alice-Miranda’s from New York City
Morrie Finkelstein	Lucinda’s ambitious father
Gerda Finkelstein	Lucinda’s mother
Ezekiel and Tobias Finkelstein	Lucinda’s elder brothers
Parisians
Madame Camille Crabbe	Co-owner of l’Hôtel Lulu
Monsieur Henri Crabbe	Co-owner of l’Hôtel Lulu and Madame Crabbe’s husband
Lulu	Henri’s precious dog
Saskia Lipp	PR expert for Fashion Week
Christian Fontaine	Famous designer
Adele	Christian’s assistant
Fabien Bouchard Sybilla Bouchard Uncle Claude Dux LaBelle