We Were Girls Once Poison Ivy But Nagisa decides she won’t

But Nagisa decides she won’t let it get her down

from 1980s hardcore to 2010s emo

Through Pip's journey

When she's not working with children in the crowded tenements in Hell's Kitchen

Rituals aren’t a thing of history or belonging to elaborate ceremonies

We Were Girls Once Poison Ivy But Nagisa decides she won’tFrom 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.