Violet Alexander

Violet Alexander is the main and titular character of the book Shrinking Violet. She is the twin sister of Lily.

Characteristics
Violet is a 10 year old girl with straight, nearly shoulder length hair worn loose and parted down the middle, fair skin and blue eyes. She has slightly crooked teeth, and has to wear a brace.

Attire
For school, Violet wears the Lavender House school uniform, which consists of a mauve blouse, purple skirt, brown shoes, plum-purple coat and matching beret. Out of school she wears T shirts with jeans. She tries to pick completely different colours, to not be confused with her twin sister, Lily.

Personality
Violet is a shy, but sweet and kind person. She is the complete opposite of Lily, her twin, who is loud, boisterous and outspoken. She quickly becomes penfriends with Katie, who is very like her. But worried Katie would find the real her boring, she resorted to using pieces of Lily's life when writing to Katie. She is caring, and was horrified to discover Katie was ill, and was very relieved when she was fine after her operation. She begins to become less shy after Katie joins her school, and was happy when it was discovered they are more alike than they'd thought.

Trivia

 * Violet is 5 minutes older than Lily.
 * Violets and Lily's names were picked after their mums favourite flowers.