Geoff

Geoff is Sophie's elder brother, a young apprentice mechanic who has already left school and begun working life. He is quiet, reserved and hard-working, and he spends his free time riding away on his motorcycle to places and companions that Sophie knows nothing about. To Sophie he is a fascinating figure, a doorway into the adult world she longs to enter, and she yearns to share the unknown parts of his life. Geoff half-believes her story about meeting Danny Casey and passes it on to their father, which shows both his closeness to Sophie and his uncertainty about her. He …