Penelope Farmer uses her own extraordinary story as a twin to introduce and define each section in this brave and beautifully written autobiographical anthology of twins and doubles. The marvellous and eccentrically varied choice of extracts takes us through the labyrinth of myths, fears and longings from birth and parenthood to the love and hate that simultaneously binds and divides two souls to the crisis (or relief) of separation and death.

In this exhaustive collection of over two hundred and fifty authors' works drawn from myth to contemporary fiction, from folklore to psychology, from scientists' to twins' accounts of themselbes, Penelope Farmer draws us into the very essence of twins and doubles.

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