We Were Girls Once Poison Ivy Through Pip's journey

Through Pip's journey

with many during the restoration work by Bob Meanley and in operation by David Maidment

from 1980s hardcore to 2010s emo

there would be no beauty

Seven critical essays on the novel’s major themes: gender

We Were Girls Once Poison Ivy Through Pip's journeyFrom Aiwanose Odafen, the author of Tomorrow I Become a Woman, an ambitious, moving novel that charts three women's shifting relationships against a modernising, volatile Nigeria in the 1990s and beyond. We were three: complete, as we were meant to be Ego, Zina and Eriife were always destined to be best friends, ever since their grandmothers sat next to each other on a dusty bus to Lagos in the late 1940s, forging a bond that would last generations.