
LifeStyle
Reality filtered through altered minds
Mark Nayler
...really mad - in a clinical sense of that overused term - Elisa, or her eccentric flatmate Susana? As I wrestled with these and other questions posed by A Working Woman, I realised that I would always remember the experience of reading it for the first ... Woman is Madrid itself. Nowhere is Navarro's descriptive talent more obvious than in the passages that deal with Elisa's nocturnal explorations of the capital's suburbs - areas littered with post-crisis, unfinished housing, most of it occupied by