Twenty-three-year-old Magnolia is a protagonist and one of the two main characters in the novel; many of the chapters are told from her first-person perspective. Her full name is Magnolia Katherine Juliet Parks. She is a wealthy socialite and the daughter of a powerful and influential Black music producer, Harley Parks, who has won several Grammy awards for his work. Her mother, Arrie, is a former supermodel who now designs handbags and fragrances. Magnolia’s mother grew up in Russia and moved to the UK, bringing her mother, who is known as Bushka. Magnolia has brown skin and light green eyes. She is slender and very pretty, and she revels in her good looks.

Magnolia has a sister named Bridget who also lives in the family’s 10-bedroom house in Holland Park, which is located in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea—one of the more affluent neighborhoods in London. The family employs a full staff, including maids and drivers. Magnolia attended a prestigious boarding school, where she met her current circle of friends, but she also grew up with a nanny, a Scottish woman named Marsaili, who still lives with the family. The

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