Gail turns up after Ginger is killed. Link falls in love with her, but it turns out she isn't homeless after all - she is an undercover journalist trying to get a story for her paper.
- She ‘was the best looking dosser’ Link had ever seen. Her hair is ‘chestnut, spilling from under her green knitted cap like fire’
- Link and Gail ‘hit it off from the word go’ (93) and Link is ‘well in love’, which means he doesn’t question some of the odder things she does.
- She is ‘terminally curious…about life on the streets’ (96) and very often rushes off to the phone box to ring her sister.
- At the end, it turns out she is an undercover reporter and was only pretending to be in love with Link. Her real name is Louise and her real boyfriend is a photographer called Gavin. However, when she has to leave Link, she is ‘in tears’ (131) and she gives him some money before she leaves.
