Mags and Tom are living a lie, hiding behind the facade of a happy, well-adjusted family. But something, someone, lingers in the background, just out of reach. When the brother of Tom’s first love and Mag’s best friend, Susan O’Malley, brings fresh news forty years after Susan’s death, Tom and Mags begin to confront the ghosts of memory and guilt. Told from the point of view of both Mags and Tom (and briefly Susan herself), My Name Was Susan O’Malley explores the love and loss of those left behind - the collateral damage.

About The Dowry

Talis’ marriage to Lark is coming apart at the seams as their once happy life is fractured by the one thing they both desperately desire: a child of their own. But in an overpopulated world where life’s most precious decision is fed into an unyielding algorithm, gaining permission to reproduce requires a dowry of unspeakable value.