Arifa Akbar
Arifa Akbar is the Guardian's chief theatre critic. A journalist for over twenty years, she is the former literary editor of the Independent, where she also worked as arts correspondent and news reporter. She has previously contributed to the Observer and the Financial Times. She is on the board of trustees for the Orwell Foundation and English PEN. Short pieces of her non-fiction have appeared in several anthologies. Consumed is her first book.
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Arifa Akbar - Consumed | 5x15
Blending intensely moving memoir with a wide-ranging medical history, Arifa Akbar’s new book Consumed is a heart-breaking tribute to the sister she lost to tuberculosis. Arifa travels to Rome to haunt the places Keats and her sister had explored, to her grandparent's house in Pakistan, to her sister's bedside at
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