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Mrs. Gloria Taylor.  (Referred to in ‘Haze’ and ‘Annie’).  No relation of Doug Taylor below, she is the head dinner lady at St. Ann’s.  The school food is said to be infamous.  Hazel Fauld jokes that “Several major human rights organisations, and at least one foreign biological warfare laboratory were rumoured to be hunting for her”.

Douglas (Doug) Taylor.  (Appears in ‘Daughters’, ‘Aleyse’ and ‘Fracture’. Mentioned in ‘Rachel’, ‘Gold’ and ‘Sofia’).  He founded, owns and runs ‘The Gemini Club’ in Saltbury: the town’s one and only gay night spot.  He is around 70 in 2003, so was born around 1933 and has a rather fussily neat goatee beard.  He is a friendly, much loved figure in the Saltbury LGBTQ community. He’s actually a transman. .  He was born Doreen Barton and had married Ian Taylor in 1961, in the traditional white dress and veil.  He had given birth to two children, Roger and then Pippa, before finding that he couldn’t cope with his gender dysphoria any longer and transitioning, with his understanding husband’s support.

Phillipa (Pippa) Taylor.  (Appears in ‘Yvonne’, ‘Fracture’ and ‘Sofia’.  Mentioned in ‘History Girls’ and ‘Gold’).  She is the younger of Doug Taylor’s two children, aged just shy of 40 in 2003 when Yvonne Wright started working at the ‘Gem’.  She now largely runs the club day to day, although Doug still likes to take the strategic decisions and do the staff recruitment.  She’s friendly and gregarious and, although she’s not gay herself, no-one minds. She books Sofie Fauld as the ‘Gems’ first ever LGBTQ artist gig.

Richard (Rich) Telford.  (Appears in ‘Annie’, ‘Daughters’, ‘Aleyse’, ‘Martine’, ‘Debbie’s Gift’ and ‘Sofia’.  Mentioned in ‘Rachel’ ‘Sisters’ and ‘Roisin’).  He is the sound and lighting engineer for Debbie Stewart’s bands ‘Xeroed’ and ‘Aleyse’ and acts as co-producer for their records.  He was a find of Johnny Sherwin’s who discovered him as a recent graduate in electrical engineering from Saltbury University.  At the time he was qualified, but looking to gain experience.  He has been with the band(s) ever since and his contribution was eventually deemed to be so important that he was made a full member of ‘Xeroed’ on the same percentages as the rest of the band.  He has been Xeroed keyboardist, Grant Annandale’s boyfriend and then husband almost since the beginning.  Grant led him a real dance at first, blowing hot and cold, but they settled down in the end and are now an established and very happy couple.  Rich is small and rather camp, but the hulking, straight roadies and riggers he leads all worship him because he is technically so brilliant.  He is six years older than Grant. Much later, he co-produces Sofie Fauld’s second album: ‘Sofia II’ after Jilly Evans suffers a stroke.

Xara Templeton.  (Appears in ‘Gold’ and ‘Millie’. Mentioned in ‘Red’).  She is the rather snooty, metropolitan elite girlfriend then wife of Tina Burns’ older brother, Peter.  She is a rapidly rising civil servant who retains her maiden name.  She rather looks down her nose at her provincial in-laws.  She is the same age as Pete, so five years older than Tina.  Tina describes her hair as a rich brunette.  She is a bit miffed that the Jenner genes have infiltrated another bloodline, because, unlike Peter, her son (also Peter) has Mary and Tina’s brilliant red hair.  She is also miffed that Carol is often a centre of male attention in the Burns household because of her sporting knowledge.  She resents Carol’s fame and the fact that she is older than her when she likes being able to patronise Tina who is 5 years younger.  Most of all she is miffed at the fact that Carol doesn’t notice, or at least doesn’t care that she looks down on her. Tina and her father tend to play up to the thick provincial image to send her up. When Tina is pregnant she turns up with her son Peter to give Teen a carload of Peter’s old baby things.

Derek Tempting.  (Appears in ‘Sisters’).   This is a stage name.  She is really called Shona and is the leader of a band called ‘Derek Tempting and his Comedy Jazzmen’, part of the joke being that none of them are men.  They are a drag act.  They act as support act for ‘Fauld’ at a gig in December 2005.

Cheri Thomas.    (Appears in ‘Rachel’.  Mentioned in ‘Sisters’, ‘Roisin’ and ‘Chantel’).  She is an expert medical/sports masseuse who sorts out Hazel Fauld’s back at one point when she hurts it tripping over while vacuuming her flat.  She is a semi detached member of the Sappho’s ‘Dockers’, but much younger than the others at about 26.  She does, though, have the same attitude of not wanting to be in a specific relationship.  She is very professional in her work.  Her patients are absolutely forbidden to touch her, but she is promiscuous in her private life. She is quite happy to date Rosh when they meet in Sappho’s some time after Hazel’s treatment.  She is quite small, attractive, with curly, bottle-blonde hair and a nice smile.  She loves to spoil her many lovers, but few get to sleep with her more than once or twice.  It’s not that they displease her; that’s just how she likes things.

Reenie (Irene) Tittensor.  (Appears in ‘Rachel’, ‘Sisters’, ‘Roisin’ and ‘Wyeburn Station’. Mentioned in ‘Chantel’).    She is one of the oldest of the gang of Sappho’s ‘Dockers’, being in her sixties.  She likes to think of herself as a ruthless, rather caddish seductress who preys on innocent young girls, but she is actually a versatile sexual role-player.  She particularly likes to be the wicked Sir Jasper type seducing and deflowering innocent virgins, but she’s perfectly happy if it’s often the same virgin.  She says that being a virgin is a skilled role and you can’t expect to get it right first time!  Hazel Fauld gets quite into her fantasy world for a while and enjoys playing up to her.  Reenie says Hazel is gradually becoming a really good virgin! Apart from that, she loves to knit baby clothes for friends and neighbours, and rather to other people’s surprise, she is a devoted churchgoer.

Beth Tontine.   (Appears in ‘Yvonne’).  She is Julie Worth’s sister who takes her and her daughter Mandy in when Julie’s marriage breaks up, although she is heavily pregnant at the time and as she and her husband only have a very small house she can only take them in temporarily.

Arthur Tootlin.  (Appears in ‘Daughters’ and ‘Rachel’).  He is the proprietor and sole instructor with the ‘Arthur Tootlin School of Motoring’, in Saltbury.  He tries and fails to teach Hazel Fauld to drive at first.  He is a calm and sympathetic teacher who teaches Tina with no difficulty, but somehow Haze just doesn’t get manual gear change and soon gives up trying.  Later she tries again in an automatic and succeeds.  He also teaches Tina, who finds it a much easier process.  He has a little vocal mannerism that has the girls giggling about him.  He always says ‘our’ rather than ‘your’, e.g. ‘Let’s take our foot off the clutch.”  Tina Burns does a good impersonation.

Hazel Tramaine.  (Mentioned in ‘Sisters’).    She was a nurse in a London sanatorium where Annie Roberts spent six weeks while her parents were working on an engineering project in the Gulf.  She was thought to be a kindly, model nurse until she was caught sexually abusing a young female patient  She was in her late 30s in 2005 when she was arrested and she proved to have been abusing girls for many years.

Lesley Travis.  (Appears in ‘Aleyse’)  She is a nurse at the hospital where Ruth Gregory’s ex-girlfriend Elaine works as an administrator and the two are friends.  She has long been attracted to Ruth, but did nothing whilst she was her friend’s girlfriend, but once they broke up she asks Elaine to do something of a ‘my friend fancies you’.  They have a date which appears to go wonderfully well, but Ruth is already in love with Aleyse, almost without realising it, and finds she cannot continue with the relationship.

Dr. Susan (Susie) Tredgold.   (Appears in ‘Rachel’ and ‘History Girls’. Mentioned in ‘Fracture’ and ‘Gold’).    She is the curator of Saltbury Museum and Art Gallery and becomes the girlfriend of the Faulds’ au-pair Simoné.  She is a few years older than Simoné, at maybe 24 in 2003.  When Simoné went home to Spain in 2004 they tried to keep a long distance relationship going, but they drifted apart fairly quickly and Susie was alone for a while, but she eventually met Carol Baxter’s ex Angela and the two fell in love.

Justin Tredwell.  (Mentioned in ‘Haze’).  He was a less than successful bully at Roisin and Hazel’s primary school.  Roisin beat the hell out of him when he hit a five year old Haze and tried to steal her teddy. He ended up crying for his mummy and losing what little street cred he may have had.

Mabel (Hex) Trevithick.  (Appears in ‘Annie’, ‘Daughters’, ‘Rachel’, ‘Sisters’ and ‘Wyeburn Station.  Mentioned in ‘Roisin’, ‘History Girls’, ‘Debbie’s Gift’, ‘Gold’ and ‘Sofia’).  She is the leader, songwriter and singer of sinister Goth band ‘Dark Portal’.  She looks like a princess of evil, with dark make-up, black hair, black clothes.  She is very busty and wears stage clothes that show a lot of cleavage.  Hazel calls her sex on legs, with head to foot in tattoos.  When Hazel gets talking to her on the merch stall after going to see them live in London, she actually turns out to be charming, with a gentle west country speaking voice.  She is a huge ‘Xeroed’ fan and the band are planning to play ‘Cheapies’ in Saltbury, rather than a larger venue, simply because ‘Xeroed’ used to play there in the early days.  She turns up at an ‘Aleyse’ gig at Saltbury university looking so demure that although she recognises Haze and Annie, they don’t recognise her.  It turns out the tattoos are temps and she appears wearing a rather less revealing version of the ancient Greek costumes Deb likes.  She makes them herself.  There is still no disguising the chest, though.  She is in her late twenties.  She lives in Exeter.  In ‘Daughters’ she provides the vocals for Debbie’s nightmare solo album ‘Daughters’ and also plays second drummer to Hazel.  She is a lesbian and dates the Faulds’ au-pair Adriana.  In ‘Rachel’ she takes Hazel Fauld on the road as ‘Dark Portal’s’ tour drummer.  Mabel is a drummer herself and always plays the drums on ‘Dark Portal’ records, but she likes to front the band as singer on stage, so they always have a tour drummer on the road.  Her bandmates call her Hex as she’s spiritually a witch.

Reginald (Reggie) Trimpton.  (Appears in ‘Sisters’).    He is the new owner and sound engineer of Rock theme pub ‘The Drummerdary’ in Kilburn.  He is a philanderer and profoundly male chauvinist idiot who changes setting on Fauld’s gear, then tries to touch up Hazel when the band played their first (and last) gig there in November 2005.  To say the least, it did not go well.

Nan Tuckett.  (Mentioned in ‘Gold’).  She is the owner/manager of ‘Nan Tuckett’s Southern Fried Chicken’ in Star Street, Saltbury.  It’s Carol and Tina’s favorite fast food place and Hazel and Annie used to meet there after school.

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Paul Underhill.   (Appears in ‘Annie’).  He was the keyboard player in the original, Manchester University, incarnation of Roisin Fauld’s band, ‘Fauld’.  He was a year older than the other three members (including Roisin), being a 2nd year when the band first formed.

Victoria Unwin.  (Appears in ‘Debbie’s Gift’. Mentioned in ‘Roisin’).   She likes to style herself Imogen, because she thinks it sounds more otherworldly.  She is a somewhat eccentric self-taught, self-made folklore expert who gives lectures on the subject.  She’s a friend of Brenda George, who she gets to produce a series of illustrations for a lecture series and book she is writing about female evil and mischief spirits.  Brenda recruits Hazel Fauld to model for the images, not least because she thinks Hazel’s curvy form and large breasts suit her image of the creatures she is to depict.  Brenda and Hazel are second year students at the time, but Imogen is older: in her late twenties and a freelance lecturer not a student who also writes and appears on TV as an expert on folklore and mysticism.  She is quite tall, something she emphasises with very high heels.  She dyes her long hair metallic silver, which contrasts with her tendency to wear stark black, usually in the form of bespoke trouser suits.  She wears mystical jewellery, but usually in the form of a single expensive broach and earrings, rather than a cloud of cheap tat.  She moves with elegance and speaks with a quiet authority that never strays into sounding arrogant.  Her sexuality is ambiguous, or possibly non-existent.  She is single, but wears a wedding ring and Brenda has never heard of her having either a boy or a girlfriend.

Gerry Urmston.  (Appears in ‘Martine’).    He was a steward at the 1976 Friedhorn Rock festival who got Debbie Stewart to sign his copy of the then new ‘Xeroed’ album, ‘Camp David’ when she came off stage.  He was coshed by the man who attacked her a few moments later and was actually more badly hurt than her. Until she came round in hospital, Deb had assumed that it was Gerry who attacked her.  She hadn’t seen anyone else around.

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Cassandra (Cassie) Valiant.  (Appears in ‘History Girls’, ‘Fracture’ and ‘Sofia’.  Mentioned in ‘Wyeburn Station’ and ‘Millie’).  When we meet her she is a 17 year old lower-sixth former at St. Ann’s School for Girls.  She joins the ex-school gaysoc run by Mark, Brendan, Tina, Jenny and Yvonne.  In the summer holidays, she also joins the ‘History Girls’ gang working on newly discovered Prodnoze family papers.  Like a young Hazel, she is totally at ease with the fact that she‘s a lesbian even though she’s never had a girlfriend. She eventually pairs off with Ashley and the two are so astonishingly similar looking that they get called the twins. The evil Jade steals nude pictures of Ashley off Cass’ phone to fake having an affair with her and almost breaks the two up, but she is detected by, of all people, Lia, now an IT graduate and expert.  The couple eventually marry, with a young Millie Baxter as bridesmaid.

Yvette Villeneuve.  (Mentioned in ‘Penny’ and ‘Martine’).   She is the boss of the fashion house with which Martine Fauld served an internship before she was a student and again in the summer after the end of her first year at University.  Her real name is Wendy Newham but she uses a French name as an affectation because French fashion people have such a reputation for genius. The two surnames both anyway mean ‘New town’.  She has a husband called Andy. She is a very supportive boss and takes Martine on trips, for example to the Paris fashion shows.  She also seduces her.  They have a long sexual relationship which ends with her being inveigled into threesomes with Yvette and Andy together, mostly because Yvette enjoys watching.  In the end Andy rebels.

Detective Inspector Andrew Vincent.  (Appears in ‘Gold’).  He is an officer of Saltbury CID and investigates the break-in at Carol and Tina’s house.  His patience, is sorely tried by the well meaning, if slightly inept enthusiasm of his two WPCs: Brightbank and Gove.  He has a tendency to scruffiness that extends to his car, and is one of those people who can make a perfectly fresh cigarette look like an old dog-end.

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Alexander Spencer Watkins.    (Appears in ‘Daughters’ and ‘Rachel’).  Generally known as Spencer, he is the son of Oliver and Isabel Watkins and we meet him, aged 7, when he moves into Wyeburn with his parents, into Annie Roberts’ old home, ‘The Limes’.  He is the apple of his father’s eye, as the boy, but his big sister Phoebe finds him a pain.  He goes to the village primary school in Wyeburn where Hazel and Roisin started school.  He is Hazel’s second cousin through his mother.

Angela Sofia Watkins.  (Born in ‘Rachel’.  Mentioned in ‘Sisters’, ‘Roisin’ and ‘Fracture’).    She is the youngest child of Isabel and Oliver Watkins and second cousin to Hazel Fauld. She was born on 20th November 2003.  Hazel is her godmother.  Her mother gives her a proper Fauld ‘Sofia’ once she understands the family name tradition.

Isabel Watkins.   (Appears in ‘Daughters’ and ‘Rachel’.  Mentioned in ‘Sisters’ and ‘Wyeburn Station’).  She is the wife of engineer Oliver Watkins and mother of Phoebe and Spencer.  She is 34 when we meet her in late 2002.  She is a housewife and presents a rather staid, respectable image.  She keeps something of a secret, however, she is adopted and was the illegitimate daughter of Martine Fauld’s older sister Constanza, born when Connie was 16.  As a result, she is Martine and Deb’s niece, and Roisin, Hazel and Sofie’s cousin.  She was born Isabella Sofia, but knows next to nothing about the heritage of the name until all is revealed.  She has the very dark hair and tall stature of most of the Faulds and was born in 1969.

Oliver (Olly) Watkins.  (Appears in ‘Daughters’, mentioned in ‘Rachel’).    He is an engineer who works for the same company as Annie Roberts’ parents and he and his family move into the house in Wyeburn that they previously occupied: ‘The Limes’.  When we meet him in late 2002, he is 46.  Unlike the Roberts family, which were a husband and wife team with the wife, Crystal, if anything the real genius, Olly is the sole breadwinner.  He is a bit male chauvinist and tends to rate his seven year old son Spencer as more important than his daughters, Phoebe and Angela.

Phoebe Watkins.  (Appears in ‘Daughters’, ‘Rachel’, ‘Sisters’, ‘History Girls’ and ‘Sofia’.  Mentioned in ‘Carol’, ‘Roisin’ and ‘Fracture’).  She is the daughter of Oliver and Isabel Watkins and we meet her, aged 12, when she moves into Wyeburn with her parents, into Annie Roberts’ old home, ‘The Limes’.  She even has Annie’s old room.  It’s a company house and her father works for the same engineering firm.  It turns out that her mother is Connie Fauld’s illegitimate daughter, so she is Hazel’s and Roisin’s second cousin.  She is distinctly nervous when she arrives, as a St. Ann’s first year, and Hazel rather takes her under her wing.  She was born in 1991.  She has the very dark hair and tall stature of most of the Faulds and by 13 she is already taller than Hazel, which Haze finds rather funny. Right from arriving in Saltbury she develops a crush on a boy called Ben, who is a little older than her, but eventually he comes out to her.  They become good friends and she introduces him to Tina’s ex-school Gay Soc group. By the time of ‘Sofia’ she is married, with a four year old son called Roger.  She is pregnant with her second, which the scans say will be a girl.

Councillor Mary Welford O.B.E.  (Appears in ‘Annie’ and ‘Gold’.  Mentioned in ‘Carol’, ‘History Girls’, ‘Fracture’ and ‘Millie’).  She is a member of Saltbury Town Council. By profession she is a midwife at Saltbury General Hospital and assisted Debbie Stewart when she gave birth to her daughters: Sofie Fauld’s birth in 2002 and Danielle two years later.  She runs various voluntary activities, including a support group for the parents of gay children that Mary Burns and Sheila Baxter have attended.  She is a lesbian herself and is married to fellow midwife Terri.  Later, in ‘Gold’ she will become Saltbury’s Mayor. She did the parachute jump with Carol and Tina at the start of ‘Fracture and gave Carol a parade and civic reception when she won Gold at the Olympics.  Tina Burns describes her as “a ‘bundle’.  She positively vibrated with energy and made the average workaholic look lazy.”

Theresa (Terri) Welford.  (Appears in ‘Fracture’, ‘Gold’ and ‘Millie’).  She is the wife of Mary Welford, a fellow midwife and acts as her Lady Mayoress when Mary is Mayor of Saltbury.  She is a natural diplomat and advocate, a path smoother for her wife’s plans for the town. She is the midwife when Tina gives birth to Millie.

Charlotte Wellings.  (Mentioned in ‘Rachel’).    She is an Economics teacher at St. Ann’s School for Girls, who joined the staff at the start of the 2003/4 school year.

Stephanie Westlake.  (Mentioned in ‘Roisin’, ‘History Girls’, ‘Debbie’s Gift’ and ‘Fracture’’).  She is a British athlete and Carol’s rival for the UK No’ 1 position as a female middle distance runner.  She is also an arrogant little madam.  She went to a posh girls’ boarding school where she was Head Girl and captain of virtually everything which has left her with a massive sense of entitlement.  She is not amused at Saltbury state-school girl Carol beating her and takes to cheating.

Mr. Gerald (Gerry) Whistler.  (Appears in ‘Haze’ and ‘Annie’.  Mentioned in ‘Red’, ‘Carol’ and ‘Daughters’).  He was the Geography teacher at St. Ann’s School for Girls when Hazel and Tina were in the 5th form.  He was also a friend of Carol Baxter.  He was new, very young (23) and somewhat naïve.  Hazel says that “Even Teen and I could tell that he was good looking and half the class had designs on him.  Some, like Gillian Rogers openly gave him the come-on in class, to which he tended to just blush.”  There is much speculation that he is dating Miss Baxter, which causes jealousy from the many girls in the school who fancy him.  However, he is later caught in a relationship with a senior pupil and dismissed. The event caused Carol Baxter to have serious reservations when she and Tina fell in love years later. Even though Tina has left school by then, Carol still worries as to whether their relationship is ethical.

Mrs Grace Wilberforce.  (Appears in ‘Annie’).  She was the St. Ann’s Geography teacher up to her retirement at the end of the 2001 summer term.  She was replaced by Mr. Whistler, but she came temporarily out of retirement at zero notice to teach again when Mr. Whistler was fired (or officially ‘felt compelled to resign’).  Hazel regards her as an absolute sweetie, but the most boring teacher who ever lived.

Jenny (Jennifer) Wilding.  (Appears in ‘Martine’.  Mentioned in ‘Annie’ and ‘Sofia’).  She is Debbie Stewart’s oldest friend, except for Johnny Sherwin.  She was the vicar’s daughter in her home village of Mylford.  They have known each other since they were barely out of nappies and went to play-group together.  By the time the Saltbury novels start she is an academic and a well known feminist writer.  She has naturally wavy, platinum blonde hair to the point that she can appear to be grey at first sight.  As a girl she wore it long, like Debbie, half way down her back, but at university she had a phase of virtually shaving it into a skinhead cut.

Rev. Peter Wilding.  (Appears in ‘Martine’).   He was the Vicar of Mylford, the village in which Debbie Stewart grew up, during her childhood and teens.  His daughter, Jenny was one of Debbie’s best friends at school.  He is a kind, thoroughly Christian man, if with a slight touch of the bone idles.

David (Dave) Wilkins.   (Mentioned in ‘Martine’).    He was a member of Debbie Stewart and the other members of Xeroed’s school year in Saltbury High School.  He was a very macho, sporty type, so was given the ironic nickname ‘Camp David’.  Later, as in in-joke, the band named their third album after him, letting others assume it was named after the US Presidential retreat of the same name.

Barry (Baz) Wilton. (Appears in Rachel and ‘Debbie’s Gift’).  He is the second of just two men that Hazel Fauld ever sleeps with.  Unlike her disastrous first time, Baz is sensitive and loving and puts every effort into giving her pleasure, but she still hates it.  Not because he does anything wrong.  It just confirms her lesbianism. Later he dates Weird Brenda.

Miss Rosemary Winton.  (Appears in ‘Haze’, ‘Rachel’, ‘Annie’ and ‘Gold’.  Mentioned in ‘Sisters’ and ‘Roisin’).  She teaches Biology at St. Ann’s and is aged around 40 at the time of ‘Haze’.  She is a workaholic and doubles as the school nurse.  She also takes afte- hours 1st Aid classes (which Hazel Fauld attends).  She is a somewhat fearsome figure, at least at first sight.  She stands no nonsense and comes down hard on slackers and trouble makers.  At the same time though, Hazel says that she’s what Miss Baxter might have been like if she had come equipped with an actual human soul.  She has the gift of making pupils want to please her, rather than ruling by fear, and can be a nurturing, encouraging teacher, not just a slave driver.  It was because of what Hazel learned in her classes that she was able to give Annie CPR when she collapsed and knew what to do when Lizzy almost miscarried. In ‘Gold’, Carol Baxter calls her in to help make sense of the biochemistry document she and Tina find hidden in a relay baton from the Olympics.

Joyce Wittington.  (Mentioned in ‘Debbie’s Gift’).   She is Martine Fauld’s secretary at Faulds Fashions. Marty can be pretty fierce at work, but Joyce has her fairly under control, most of the time at least.

Julie Worth.  (Appears in, ‘Annie’, ‘Rachel’, ‘Carol’, ‘Yvonne’, ‘Fracture’ and ‘Millie’.  Mentioned in ‘History Girls’ and ‘Gold’).  She is the love of Yvonne Wright’s life.  When we first meet her, she’s a married part-time worker in Jardine’s Fruit shop in Saltbury and the two meet when Yvonne gets a Saturday job there.  Julie is ten years older than Yvonne, with chestnut hair, and lives in a semi-detached house: 16 Verity Close, which is just west of the University campus.  She is married to Terry and has a four year old daughter, Mandy.  She loves Yvonne but can’t afford to leave her husband, so the two have to conduct their relationship in secret.  She herself had never had a girlfriend before Yvonne and they’d evolved from friends who got together for tea and a chat into lovers.  They end up fully together though, after Julie’s husband beats her because she refuses to have another child with him.  She has a married younger sister, Beth, who is pregnant at the time of the ‘Yvonne’ story.  She was born on 7th April, 1974 and is 5′ 5″ tall. Later, she and Yvonne are very happily married and a now grown-up Mandy dotes on her.  She’s good a teasing Yvonne, in the nicest way possible, especially when she’s off on one of her grumphs.  They don’t have children together.

Amanda (Mandy) Worth.  (Appears in ‘Rachel’, ‘Yvonne’, ‘Sofia’ and ‘Millie’.  Mentioned in ‘Daughters’ and ‘Carol’ and ‘Fracture’).  She is the cute infant daughter, and only child, of Yvonne Wright’s girlfriend, Julie Worth.  Although not quite four, she is obsessed with dinosaurs.  She has a picture book about them which she has virtually memorised.  She even has pictures of them on her pyjamas.  She calls Yvonne ‘Von’, not being able to pronounce the whole thing yet.  She falls in love with Yvonne’s elderly cat Fluff, the feeling being very much mutual. .  Mandy is heartbroken when Fluff dies.  Eventually Carol and Tina give her their kitten Mitzie. Years later, we meet her in ‘Sofia’ when she shows entrepreneurial spirit by organising understanding baby-sitters for gay couples.  By now, she and Yvonne are genuine friends and Mandy is training to follow her as a vet.  She is quite a muscular young lady and like her stepmother a great hockey player.  She went to Saltbury High and plays for the Old Girls team.  She is not gay herself, but is a true ally.  She has her mother’s chestnut hair and brown eyes.  She is the first to clue Tina in to the troubles of the Quantock family.  She also sometimes baby-sits Millie.

Terry Worth.  (Mentioned in ‘Yvonne’ and ‘Millie’).  He is the husband of Julie Worth, Yvonne’s married girlfriend.  The marriage ends abruptly when Terry discovers first that his wife has gone on the pill without telling him, when he is desperate for a son, and then finds that she’s gay and has been being unfaithful for over a year.  He puts her in hospital and ends up in a police cell himself.  Julie refuses to prosecute although she says there can never be any justification for beating a partner. When he and Julie divorce he remarries and Mandy stays close to him.

Ruth and George Worthington.  (Mentioned in ‘Red’ and ‘Carol’).  They are leading lights in the Teachers Union in Saltbury, who become friends of Carol’s when she is first teaching at St. Ann’s.  They are dedicated socialites who delight in organising events to, as Ruth puts it, ‘bring everyone together’.  Carol met her girlfriend Angela at one of their dinner parties.  They also advise Carol on the professional ethics involved when she first starts to date Tina.

Jane Wright.  (Appears in ‘Yvonne’.  Mentioned in ‘Carol’, ‘Fracture’ and ‘Millie’).   Jane is Yvonne Wright’s mother.  She works full time in an office to hold her little family, of herself and Yvonne, together, having been deserted by her husband years before.  She copes reasonably well with her daughter coming out as a lesbian and eventually welcomes Yvonne’s girlfriend Julie and daughter Mandy into their home when Julie’s marriage breaks up.  Jane becomes besotted with Mandy and positively encourages Julie and Yvonne to go out on dates so she can baby sit. Yvonne feels she is trying to give Mandy the childhood she fears she failed to give her own daughter.

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Terence (Terry) Young.  (Appears in ‘Martine’).  He is an obsessive ‘Xeroed’ fan with a fixation on Debbie Stewart.  He is about 35 and heavily built.  He becomes utterly deranged when he hears that Deb is romantically involved with a woman and tries to break into her hotel room in Newcastle-on-Tyne to ‘cure’ her.  Later he becomes a stalker, following the band putting poison pen threatening letters through venue letter boxes.  Finally he violently attacks her at the Friedhorn Rock festival and comes within an inch of killing her.  Martine saves her life.