Sisterland: The striking Sunday Times bestseller - Softcover

Sittenfeld, Curtis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0552776599 ISBN 13: 9780552776592

Publisher: Black Swan, 2014

Synopsis

For identical twins, Kate and Violet are about as unlike as two peas from the same pod can be. Except in one respect – they share a hidden gift. But after Kate inadvertently reveals their secret when they are thirteen years old, their lives are set on diverging paths.

Twenty years later Kate, a devoted wife and mother, has settled down in the suburbs to raise her two young children. Violet is single, and lives a much more flamboyant and eccentric existence. Then one day Violet ignites a media storm by predicting a major earthquake in the St Louis area where they live.

As the day Violet has announced for the earthquake draws nearer, Kate must attempt to reconcile her fraught relationship with her sister, and to face truths about herself she has long tried to deny.

About this title

Review:

"A work of psychological genius and has a wonderful twist at the end...a literary pageturner...There's a fizzing, daring originality to Sisterland that draws you in and takes your breath away." (Observer)

"Engagingly messy mixture of the comic and the sombre...a beautifully delicate way of describing both familial and conjugal love." (Guardian)

"Curtis Sittenfeld has a knack for capturing characters so vividly it's uncanny...brilliantly evokes small-town Eighties adolescence...the gripping denouement is expertly carried out." (Daily Mail)

"Wise and empathetic, this is a book with a great sense of humour and an even bigger heart." (Glamour)

"Sittenfeld's debut Prep was one of the best novels about adolescence written this century, and it is here, when dealing with the competitve world of teenage girls, that Sittenfeld is at her best in Sisterland...Like Kate Akinson with her recent Life After Life, Sittenfeld is a reliably realistic (if slightly dreamy) novelist who has here tackled a somewhat far-fetched concept outside her normal range and displayed impressive comfort in doing so." (Sunday Times)

Book Description:

New from the bestselling author of American Wife, a novel about twin sisters who share a special gift, and the enduring power of the bond between them.A Richard & Judy Book Club pick.

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Swan
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0552776599
• ISBN 13: 9780552776592
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 528