Girl, Woman, Other faber "Her name was Magda

"Her name was Magda

through his interactions with patients and co-workers

who is always in the soup (or just plain drunk)

And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day

Girl, Woman, Other faber "Her name was MagdaThe twelve central characters of this multi voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explores her Black lesbian identity; her old friend Shirley is a teacher, jaded after decades of work in Londons funding deprived schools; Carole, one of Shirleys former students, is a successful investment banker; Caroles mother Bummi works as a cleaner and worries about her daughters lack of rootedness despite