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26a

Unabridged.

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  • "Twenty-six a"@en
  • "Twenty-six a"
  • "Twenty-six A"

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  • "Centring on Georgia and Bessi, identical twin sisters who inhabit the loft of 26 Waifer Avenue in Neasden, this novel watches the Hunter family as they make their way through the 1980s. Some family members having more success than others."
  • "Childhood fantasies, secrets and loss. Wickedly funny and devastatingly moving."
  • "Unabridged."@en
  • "Georgia and Bessi are twins, daughters of a Nigerien immigrant mother and a white British father. Their bond goes beyond sisterhood. But as the twins begin to grow and separate, it becomes increasingly obvious they are living in disparate worlds. As Bessi leaves to forge her own identity, Georgia struggles to keep her own darkness from her bright and happy sister by any means possible."@en
  • "Identical twins Georgia and Bessi live in the loft of 26 Waifer Avenue. Their Nigerian mother puts cayenne pepper on Yorkshire pudding. Older sister Bel discovers sex, high heels and organic haridressing. Baby sister Kerny learns to moon walk like Michael Jackson. But when reality comes knocking, the fantasies of childhood start to give way."@en
  • "PLAYAWAY. Identical twins Georgia and Bessi live in the loft of 26 Waifer Avenue. Down below, their Nigerian mother puts cayenne pepper on Yorkshire pudding and their father roams the streets of Neasden. Forced to create their own identities, the Hunter children build a separate universe. Older sister Bel discovers sex and high heels, the twins prepare for a flapjack empire, and baby sister Kemy learns to moonwalk like Michael Jackson. But when reality comes knocking, the fantasies of childhood start to give way."
  • "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. 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. But innocence lasts for only so long--and dreams cannot slow the relentless incursions of the real world. A terrible secret begins to threaten the twins' utopia, setting them on divergent paths toward heartrending resolutions in a world of separateness and solitude."
  • "Identical twins Georgia and Bessi live in the loft of 26 Waifer Avenue. Down below, their Nigerian mother puts cayenne pepper on Yorkshire pudding; their father roams the streets of Neasden, prey to the demons of his Derbyshire upbringing. Forced to create their own identities, the Hunter children build a separate universe. Older sister Bel discovers sex, high heels and organic hairdressing, the twins prepare for a flapjack empire and baby sister Kemy learns to moonwalk like Michael Jackson."@en

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  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Audiobooks"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Bildungsromans"
  • "Bildungsromans"@en

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