She started working as a teacher in a Calvinist all-girl school in Debrecen and Hódmezővásárhely. She also wrote dramas, essays, studies, memories and poetry.īorn in Debrecen, Szabó graduated at the University of Debrecen as a teacher of Latin and of Hungarian. Magda Szabó was a Hungarian writer, arguably Hungary's foremost female novelist. Above all, however, Abigail is a thrilling tale of suspense. Rowling are sure to enjoy Szabó’s picture of irreverent students, eccentric teachers, and boarding-school life. There is something of Jane Austen in this story of the deceptiveness of appearances fans of J.K. And for Gina, who is in much deeper trouble than she could possibly suspect, a life-changing adventure is only beginning. If you’re in trouble, it’s said, leave a message with Abigail and help will be on the way. Caught and brought back, there is nothing for Gina to do except entrust her fate to the legendary Abigail, as the classical statue of a woman with an urn that stands on the school’s grounds has come to be called. She fights with her fellow students, she rebels against her teachers, finds herself completely ostracized, and runs away. She is even more aghast at the grim religious institution to which she soon finds herself consigned. Gina is devastated when the general tells her that he must go away on a mission and that he will be sending her to boarding school in the country. Gina is the only child of a general, a widower who has long been happy to spoil his bright and willful daughter. Abigail, the story of a headstrong teenager growing up during World War II, is the most beloved of Magda Szabó’s books in her native Hungary.

Abigél by Magda Szabó