Dixie is 10, the youngest of the Diamond girls, and the narrator of the story. She was preterm birth and remains small and skinny. Her father is an embalmer called Terry, who Sue met while she was arranging her previous boyfriend Jordan's funeral. Terry is married to a woman named Stella and has three young daughters with her. He rarely talks to Dixie or contacts her; however, at the end of the book, he visits Dixie in hospital and says he wants to introduce her to her half-sisters. Dixie has a toy budgie called Bluebell, who she keeps up her cardigan sleeve. She befriends six-year-old Mary, who is being abused by her mother. Her favourite colour is deep blue and she would like to be a writer when she grows up.
