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The Silent Twins
- Author
- Marjorie Wallace
- Narrator
- Jodhi May
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 15 September 2022
- Run Time
- 12 hours 27 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
*** Now a major motion picture starring Letitia Wright ***
When identical twins, June and Jennifer Gibbons were three they began to reject communication with anyone but each other, and so began a childhood bound together in a strange and secret world. As they grew up, love, hate and genius united to push them to the extreme margins of society and, following a five week spree of vandalism and arson, the silent twins were sentenced to a gruelling twelve-year detention in Broadmoor.
Award-winning investigative journalist Marjorie Wallace delves into the twins' silent world, revealing their genius, alienation and the mystic bond by which the extremes of good and evil ended in possession and death.
© Marjorie Wallace 1986 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
Critics Review
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Strange, riveting... Thanks to Marjorie Wallace, thanks to the twins' incorrigible brilliance, we now have some idea of what it is like to stand in front of a dark mirror
London Review of Books
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A remarkable (and finally tragic) story which, in its depth, penetration and detail, no less than its extraordinary subject matter, must be seen as outstanding, a testimony to something extraordinary in the author herself
New York Times Review of Books
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A compelling and tragic story
Mail on Sunday
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Breathtaking
Independent
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Details
- Author
- Marjorie Wallace
- Narrator
- Jodhi May
- Duration
- 12 hours 27 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 September 2022
- ISBN
- 9781529194821
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Age groups: children, True stories / true accounts of events, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.*** Now a major motion picture starring Letitia Wright ***When identical twins, June and Jennifer Gibbons were three they began to reject communication with anyone but each other, and so began a childhood bound together in a strange and secret world. As they grew up, love, hate and genius united to push them to the extreme margins of society and, following a five week spree of vandalism and arson, the silent twins were sentenced to a gruelling twelve-year detention in Broadmoor.Award-winning investigative journalist Marjorie Wallace delves into the twins' silent world, revealing their genius, alienation and the mystic bond by which the extremes of good and evil ended in possession and death.© Marjorie Wallace 1986 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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