Review
From the book jacket:
The attic room at 26a Waifer Avenue in
the lower-middle-class London neighborhood
of Neasden is a sanctuary for identical
twins Georgia and Bessi Hunter. It is a
private universe where fantasy reigns, as
well as an escape from the sadness and
danger that inhabit the floors below. Here
the girls share nectarines and forge their
identities -- planning glorious success as
the Famous Flapjack Twins -- well removed
from their Nigerian mother, Ida, who,
devastated by homesickness, speaks to the
spirits of the family she left behind on
another continent. On occasion Georgia and
Bessi's older sister, Bel, and younger
sister, Kemy, are admitted into their broad,
bright and fanciful...
Beyond the Book
Diana Evans
is a graduate of the University
of East Anglia's Creative
Writing MA, and lives in
London. She has published short
fiction in a number of
anthologies, has worked as a
journalist and arts critic for
several magazines in the United
Kingdom, and writes regularly
for the
Independent and
Stage. She recently won
the 2005 Orange Prize for New
Writers for
26a (The
Orange Prize for Fiction,
supported by the Arts Council
England, has been awarded
annually for 10 years but last year was the first year for the Orange Award for...
