# Giant’s Bread — Character guide

> Key figures in Giant’s Bread by Agatha Christie.

- [Vernon Deyre](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/vernon_deyre.md): Vernon Deyre is the last of the Deyres of Abbots Puissants, a boy who invents imaginary playmates and grows into a composer whose music seems to arrive from somewhere beyond his own will. He is unambitious in the ordinar
- [Nell Vereker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/nell_vereker.md): Nell Vereker is the daughter of a woman who has fought her way through life on credit and nerve, dressing her girl beautifully so that she will marry well and repay the campaign. Nell is lovely, young, and seemingly defe
- [Jane Harding](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/jane_harding.md): Jane Harding is a musician who knows exactly what she wants and goes for it, in contrast to Vernon, who does not know what he wants but is driven anyway. She tells Sebastian that music will be the power that drives Verno
- [Sebastian Levinne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/sebastian_levinne.md): Sebastian Levinne begins as the lonely boy next door whom Vernon and Joe first besiege and then befriend, and grows into a celebrated composer and Vernon's most devoted ally. He is the one who recognizes Vernon when ever
- [Joe Waite](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/joe_waite.md): Joe Waite is Vernon's playmate at Abbots Puissants, a girl who climbs trees with tomatoes in her pockets and refuses to pelt a boy who looks as though he is simply hating things. It is Joe who proposes the white flag and
- [George Green](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/george_green.md): George Green is the kind of man others call good — reliable, unremarkable, and quietly devoted — and his presence in the novel's later movement forces every question about love, loyalty, and what a person owes to the pas
- [Nurse Frances](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/nurse_frances.md): Nurse Frances takes charge of Vernon's sickroom with orange juice in a spouted cup and a counting game that ends in sleep, and she treats his imaginary world of Mr. Green and the hundred children as a serious matter wort
- [Uncle Sydney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/uncle_sydney.md): Uncle Sydney presides over family evenings with facetiousness Vernon privately finds stupid and boring, and over Myra's marital collapse with a businessman's patience for women who harp on things. He advises her to forgi
- [Myra Deyre](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/myra_deyre.md): Myra declares she never wants to see Walter again, then weeps into her brother's business advice until she settles comfortably into the role of the woman who forgives again and again. She tells Vernon his father was the 
- [Mr. Chetwynd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/mr_chetwynd.md): Mr. Chetwynd lingers by a doorway after the evening's end, musing to Levinne that heredity shapes the instrument, environment polishes it, sex wakens it — but something more feeds the Giant. He suspects Groen has fed his
- [Walter Deyre](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/walter_deyre.md): Walter Deyre lingers with his son by the water, speaking of the old monks catching fish, and finds in the boy a shared dislike of saying things. He dreads the emotional leavetaking Myra will stage, half hopes he won't co
- [Mrs. Vereker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/mrs_vereker.md): Nell's mother, a figure in the social circle.
- [Aunt Nina](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/annie_nina.md): Vernon's lively and artistic aunt.
- [Freda](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/freda.md): A friend of the family with a tragic story.
- [Mrs. Levinne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/mrs_levinne.md): Sebastian Levinne's mother, a comedic presence.
- [Mr. Bleibner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/mr_bleibner.md): A music publisher and acquaintance of Sebastian.
- [Herr Radmaager](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/herr_radmaager.md): A German musician and colleague of Sebastian.
- [Isabel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/isabel_susan.md): A friend of Jane's from her school days.
- [Josephine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/josephine.md): A friend or acquaintance of the main characters.
- [Father Cuthbert](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/father_cuthbert.md): A priest who appears in the narrative.
- [Enid](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/enid.md): A young woman who appears in the social scenes.
- [Aunt Carrie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/aunt_carrie.md): Another aunt of Vernon's, part of the family circle.
- [Dr. Coles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/dr_coles.md): A doctor who attends to characters in the novel.
- [Poodle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/poodle.md): A pet dog belonging to one of the characters.
- [Mr. Flemming](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/mr_flemming.md): A minor character, possibly a business associate.
- [Katie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/katie.md): A servant or maid in the household.
- [Miss Robbins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/miss_robbins.md): A minor character, possibly a governess or visitor.
- [Aunt Ethel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/ethel.md): Another aunt of Vernon's, part of the extended family.
- [La Marre](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/la_marre.md): A French name mentioned in passing.
- [Major Dacre](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/major_dacre.md): A military officer in the war sections.

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