Lorene Graves Gale

Key Facts: Lorene is the only surviving child of Carl Graves and Martha Dempsey Graves, her older siblings dying in childbirth. She is married to farmer Munroe Gale and mother of Ann Gale.

The Scoop: Shy, quiet and unassuming, Lorene gently handles her husband’s alcoholism and her daughter’s insecurities. But a pair of bloody actions, the revelation of a twenty year secret and the return of a former lover with change her world in ways that surprise everyone in Faraway Hill.