Yumiko Kadota

She says, I've got to find it.

What would a man think, a girl living alone like that?

So a little bit of slut shaming there about Faye living at home and bringing all these men back to her apartment.

But I think that's probably because internally she wishes she was getting a bit more excitement at home.

So that's a little introduction we get of Faye and Paddy.

I completely agree about the economical writing.

And I thought she did a brilliant job with Magda.

I know we all loved her as a character, but to get her language would be so difficult, you know, this kind of overly formal English that they had to learn after migrating to Australia.

And I thought she did the syntax really well.

I could totally picture some of my Central or Eastern European friends talking.

I could just hear it.

And I thought she did a really great job with the dialogue.

and very much enjoyed her style of writing.

Oh, I loved it because when I first moved to Australia, I lived on the North Shore in Northbridge.

So hearing about Lisa going back home to Chatswood and then going over to Mossman for one of Magda's tea parties and things, it was delightful.

It was so nice.

I thought she painted Sydney in such a warm way.

And I think, you know, in the biography, Madeleine,

I thought it was interesting that Helen Trinker said that she wrote about Sydney in a warm but not sentimental way.

Because I thought there was a little bit of sentiment there.