Character profiles: RedWick Lake
Main character:
Bailey Crane
Age: 15
Nationality: White American
Hometown: Florida
Occupation: School student
Parents: Linda Crane and Nigel Woods (stepfather)
Height: 5’3
Weight: slender
Eye colour: Deep brown
Hair: Shoulder length brown hair
Skin colour: white
Face shape: oval
Strengths: Knows when to leave a bad situation before she gets harmed
Weaknesses: has a small temper but bottles it up
Role in story: Main character. Goes to her Aunt’s town for the summer as punishment for bad grades in hope that she learns discipline.
Main Character's Mother:
Linda Crane
Age: 43
Nationality: White American
Hometown: Florida
Occupation: Kindergarten headmistress
Height: 5’7
Weight: Middle, neither slim nor overweight.
Eye colour: Light brown
Hair: Brown, straight pixie cut.
Skin colour: white
Face shape: oval, long
Strengths: disciplines her child by sending her to a religious town with her Aunt despite the tension between herself and her sister.
Weaknesses: Naïve. Hasn’t spoken to her Aunt in years and doesn’t know anything about the cult relationship that the pastor has with the rest of the residents of RedWick lake.
Role in story: Delivers main character to place where story happens.
Main Character's stepdad:
Nigel Woods
Age: 46
Nationality: White British, American citizen for 5 years.
Hometown: Manchester, now Florida
Occupation: Postman
Height: 6’2
Weight: Slightly overweight, beer belly.
Eye colour: bright blue
Hair: blonde pompadour, white at the beard.
Skin colour: White
Face shape: Square
Strengths: Loves his wife (Linda) and his step-daughter (Bailey).
Weaknesses: Same as Linda Crane’s weaknesses.
Role in story: Delivers main character to place where story happens.
Main character's Aunt:
Alice Crane
Age: 47
Nationality: White American
Hometown: RedWick Lake
Occupation: The town cleaning lady and the organist for the church sermons
Height: 5’5
Weight: extremely underweight
Eye colour: Dark brown
Hair: Shoulder length black straight hair
Skin colour: Very pale
Face shape: oval, long. Cheekbones stick out.
Strengths: Is good at fooling her sister and her niece that she will take care of her niece.
Weaknesses: Cheats on her husband with the pastor.
Role in story: to accommodate main character and to gain main character’s trust when she is really trying to sacrifice main character.
Terry Fisher
Age: 61
Nationality: White American
Hometown: RedWick Lake
Occupation: RedWick Lake’s fisherman
Height: 5’10
Weight: Skinny, slender
Eye colour: light grey/green
Hair: Balding, greying
Skin colour: leathery and tanned
Face shape: square jawed
Role in story: to gain Bailey’s trust until the last chapter.
Pastor Nicholas Lamb
Age: 55
Nationality: White American
Occupation: Pastor
Hometown: RedWick Lake
Height: 6’2
Weight: Skinny
Eye colour: Light grey, almost white
Hair: Salt and pepper comb over
Skin colour: White, leathery from age, liver spots on his hands and cheeks
Face shape: oval, long
Role in story: the bad guy of the story, to try and sacrifice Bailey to god as he did with his own daughter.
Helen Asher
Age: 64
Height: 5’3
Weight: skinny
Hair: Grey, shoulder length
Eye colour: green
Skin: saggy, tanned
Face shape: Diamond
Edna Asher
Age: 62
Height: 5’2
Weight: skinny
Hair: grey, elbow length, braided
Eye colour: green
Skin: paper thing, pale
Face shape: Diamond
Aunt's husband:
Jed Mason
Age: 64
Height: 6’0
Weight: overweight
Hair: Balding, bald spot in middle of head. Grey/brown hair.
Eye colour: deep grey
Skin: tanned, leathery
Face shape: Round
