Double Act - Softcover

Wilson, Jaqueline

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440864976 ISBN 13: 9780440864974

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1996

Synopsis

Ruby and Garnet are 10-year-old twins. Identical. They do everything together, especially since their mother died three years earlier. But can being a double act work forever, when so much around them is changing.

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Review:

Identical twins Ruby and Garnet are inseparable. They do everything together, and go every where together. They love being twins, and since the death of their mother they have been closer than ever, safe in their little world. But when Dad finds a new girlfriend everything in the twins' lives is turned upside down--new home, new school, new everything. And gradually, being twins isn't quite the same anymore.

In Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson brilliantly captures the pain and uncertainty that change can sometimes bring with it. This story of two little girls gradually realising that they have no real control over what is happening is both funny and poignant, but it is as the twins begin to accept that things will never be quite the same that Wilson shines, allowing her characters to grow and develop as individuals without ever losing sight of the bond that holds them together. --Susan Harrison

Review:

'Hilarious tale which contains dark notes that ring very true' The Times; 'A brilliant young writer of wit and subtlety' The Times. 'She's so good, it's exhilarating' Philip Pullman, Guardian. 'She should be prescribed for all cases of reading reluctance' Independent On Sunday.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0440864976
• ISBN 13: 9780440864974
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192