![]() ![]() The Girls is nothing short of a tour de force. In Rose and Ruby, Lori Lansens has created two precious characters, each distinct and loveable in their very different ways, and has given them a world in Leaford that rings absolutely true. ![]() They are on the verge of becoming the oldest surviving craniopagus (joined at the head) twins in history, but the question of whether they'll live to celebrate their thirtieth birthday is suddenly impossible to answer. But when we meet them, both Lovey and Stash are dead, the girls have moved back into town, and they've received some ominous news. We learn of their early years as the town "freaks" and of Lovey's and Stash's determination to give them as normal an upbringing as possible. Ruby's style is "tell-all" - frank and decidedly sweet. Rose is given to introspection and secrecy. The reader is treated to sometimes overlapping stories told in two wonderfully distinct styles. Because the girls face in slightly different directions, neither can see what the other is writing, and they don't tell each other either. Her follow-up novel The Girls was an international success as well. Published in eleven countries, it received rave reviews around the world. The novel begins with Rose, but eventually moves to Ruby's point of view and then switches back and forth. Lori Lansens was a successful screenwriter before she burst onto the literary scene in 2002 with her first novel Rush Home Road. ![]() When one of the girls decides to write her autobiography, the distinct personalities of the two emerge to reveal their contradictory longing for independence and their unwavering togetherness. Lori Lansens In Lansens's second novel, readers come to know Rose and Ruby, 29-year-old conjoined twins. ![]()
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