When India falls to her death from a bridge over a railway, her sister Poppy returns home to Brighton for the first time in years. Unconvinced by official explanations, Poppy begins her own investigation into India’s death. But the deeper she digs, the closer she comes to uncovering deeply buried secrets. Could Matthew Temple, the boyfriend she abandoned, be involved? And what of his powerful and wealthy parents, and his twin sister, Ana? Enter the mysterious and ethereal Jenny: the girl Poppy discovers after hacking into India’s laptop. What is exactly is she hiding, and what did India find out about her? Taking the reader on a breathless ride through the winding lanes of Brighton, into its vibrant party scene and inside the homes of its well- heeled families, The Other Twin is a startling and up-to-the-minute thriller about the social-media world, where resentments and accusations are played out online, where identities are made and remade, and where there is no such thing as truth …
You’ll be wanting to hit the 2x button on this one!
Let’s start how we mean to go on. The Other Twin is a great read.
I’m a regular listener to audio books, and usually listen to them as they were intended, as if my parents were reading them to me as I went to bed at night, but occasionally, and in a good way, I get impatient. My natural reading speed is far quicker, and when I find myself gripped by a book I want to know the whole story as soon as I can so I found myself speeding up the reading of The Other Twin, because I just had to know….
It’s a fascinating listen about an estranged family, who do ultimately love and care for each other, but have far too many secrets from each other. It’s also full of twists that will lead you eagerly up the wrong alley as you try and figure out what really happened to India. It is at times, sad, reflective, hurtful, sexy (yes there’s sex), open, honest and truthful about our ‘hidden’ lives.
It’s also a great reflection on highlighting the things we keep from family whether out of love oro fear, and shows how easy it is to hide our identities and be hurtful and hateful of people in the world of the social media, as we hide behind the “safety”of a screen names and anonymising blog posts.
I was really captivated by this debut novel and do urge you to grab hold of a copy, in the meantime if you tweet this post , you coud be in with a chance of winning one of three copies of the audiobook from audible.
And while you’re at it, make sure you check out some of the other fab titles in the #LoveAudio week from Orenda books
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