'Loving me, he'd understood the truth of me: how I existed in layers, like a painting. He could see the separate me, distinctly and delicately alone, transparent as a watercolour sketch. But he knew that that girl was conditioned by the magnetic pull of the picture underneath, the bold and vivid brushstrokes of Viola-and-Issy. He understood, because, like me, he was hooked into the implacable equation of being two .'
For our third book of the year I recommend The Twins by Saskia Sarginson. Their mother told them they didn't need a past. She wanted them to build their own future; but this is a story about people haunted and traumatised by their past. A bad choice made as children sets in motion a series of events no one is able to forget; and moving forward proves to be an overwhelming challenge for some. Here is the worksheet.
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