Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussions of pregnancy loss.

Sonia Nasir is the main protagonist of Enter Ghost. The novel is largely written in first-person narration from her point of view, except for sections written as a script during the rehearsals and performance of Hamlet. The novel is punctuated with Sonia’s recollections of her past. Sonia is a complex, dynamic character who finds her sense of place and purpose throughout the novel.

Sonia grew up in Britain and lives in London. Her father is Palestinian with family in Haifa. He was active in the Palestinian liberation movement as a young adult. He later left and studied in Paris and London. Her mother is half Dutch, half Palestinian, and grew up in Utrecht and London. Sonia’s parents divorced when she was in university. Her father still lives in London, and her mother lives in Marseille, France, with her new partner. Sonia trained as a ballet dancer as an adolescent and became an actor during her first year at university. She went on to study at drama school and later became a working actor in London, performing in many plays in the West End in London.