| 1 | Aiden | Price | Emma's child. Deceased. |
| | John | Constable | A painter. |
| | Amy | Perry | Aiden's teacher at primary school. Emma's friend. |
| | Robert | Hartley | Aiden's father. Emma's ex-lover. |
| | Emma | Price-Hewitt | Narrator and Protagonist. |
| | Josie | Barratt | Emma's friend. |
| | Jamie | Glover | A boy who broke Emma's heart. |
| | Fiona | Carter | A girl that Jamie kissed. |
| | Mrs. | Fitzwilliam | The headmaster at Aiden's school. |
| 2 | Angela | | The head teacher of Grade 7. |
| | Sumaira | | The head of the English Department. |
| | Tricia | | Sumaira's colleague. |
| | Jake | Hewitt | Emma's husband. |
| | Oliver | | Tricia's son. |
| 4 | Carl | Stevenson | A police detective. |
| | Dr. | Schaffer | The head of the pediatric ward at St. Michael's. |
| 7 | Sonya | Hartley | Aiden's grandmother. Rob's mother. |
| | Peter | Hartley | Aiden's grandfather. Rob's fahter. |
| 9 | Bump | | Emma and Jake's daughter. Aka: Gina Price-Hewitt. |
| 10 | Cathy | Foster | Aiden's child therapist. |
| 11 | Denise | Ellis | A policewoman. Aiden's security. |
| | Marcus | Hawthorne | A policeman. Aiden's security. |
| | Matthew | Grey | A news reporter from the Yorkshire Post. |
| 12 | Walnut | | Aiden's dragon stuffed toy. |
| 14 | Hugh | Barratt | Josephine's husband. |
| 16 | Simon | Gary | A news reporter from News of the World. |
| 18 | Christine | Hewitt | Jake's mother. |
| 19 | Carol | | A barmaid at the Queen's Head. |
| | Barbara | | A woman who lived in the downhill down from Aiden's school. |
| 21 | Simon | | The IT teacher. |
| | Chris | | A young P.E. teacher. |
| | Fiona | Watson | Emma's doctor. |
| 25 | James | G. Lennox | Duke of Hardwick.
Arrested for possession of child pornography. |
| 32 | Maeve | G. Lennox | The Duchess of Hardwick. James's wife. |
| 33 | Siobhan | Michaels | The manager of Sonya and Peter's holiday cottage business. |
| | Billy | Michaels | Siobhan's son. |
| | Raj | Patel | A child behavioral expert. |
| 34 | Jamie | | Aiden's classmate who saw him leave during the flood. |
| 35 | Sandra | | A girl who worked at the post office. |
| | Sam | | A man who worked at the post office. |
| | David | | Emma's art tutor. |
| | Jack | Hawthorne | A teacher of business studies at York Lifelong Centre. |
| 36 | Fletcher | | Rob's weed dealer. |
| | Gina | Price | Emma's mother. Aiden's grandmother. |
