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The Identicals
by Elin Hilderbrand
I read and enjoy beach reads, but normally I avoid girly romance stories. However, I occasionally read an entertaining book which not only is a girly romance, it is a fun girly beach read! ‘The Identicals’ is somewhat serious about relationships, yet still breezy, charming and full of happy endings. It has some of atmosphere of the song, Harper Valley PTA, too, only more nice. People in ‘The Identicals’ never go dark, although bad stuff happens.
https://youtu.be/4ivUOnnstpg
I’ve never been to Nantucket or Martha’s Vineyard, the setting for the story. The book describes them as nice in different ways, even if both islands appear to be ingrown and socially incestuous to me. Everybody knows everybody, and everyone has a circle of friends defined by class and pocketbook, but all are united in their dislike of summer tourists.
The plot and the main characters are where the breeze and fun come in. Harper and Tabitha Frost are twins, but earlier family difficulties - a parental divorce - split up the seventeen-year-old twins between the parents. Billy took Harper to live with him in his house on Martha’s Vineyard, and Eleanor took Tabitha to her mansion on Nantucket. Billy is a down-to-earth electrician, and Eleanor is a snooty elitist who would welcome only Old Boston blue-bloods to her home as long as they patronized her designer clothing store.
The twins haven’t seen each other in fourteen years, having become seriously estranged when Tabitha’s second child died. Their relationship had been already frayed before the death of Tabitha’s preemie baby, as the difference in their parents’ styles had set them along separate paths. Thirty-nine-year-old Harper was a beer-and-a-shot gal, wearing Billy’s clothes when she found something of his that fit, and she worked as a messenger bicyclist and waitress. Tabitha had become a upper-class breeder looking for someone for whom to be a trophy wife, but meanwhile managing her mother’s boutique. Tabitha’s daughter Ainsley is a 16-going-on-45-kid, drugs and alcohol in her system most of her days. Harper is childless.
When Billy dies, leaving his rundown house to the twins, the two women are both in the middle of relationships which are blowing up in their faces. One of the things common to both Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, everybody takes sides when relationships are going askew or dying. Events begin taking a sideways turn to slapstick comedy which neither appreciates, and the twins find themselves trading places to reluctantly help the other; but they each are actually running away from their significant friends and family.
The shift of perspective results in monumental changes for the twins.
So, maybe the ending isn’t HUGE or a surprise. Bite me.
https://youtu.be/4ivUOnnstpg
I’ve never been to Nantucket or Martha’s Vineyard, the setting for the story. The book describes them as nice in different ways, even if both islands appear to be ingrown and socially incestuous to me. Everybody knows everybody, and everyone has a circle of friends defined by class and pocketbook, but all are united in their dislike of summer tourists.
The plot and the main characters are where the breeze and fun come in. Harper and Tabitha Frost are twins, but earlier family difficulties - a parental divorce - split up the seventeen-year-old twins between the parents. Billy took Harper to live with him in his house on Martha’s Vineyard, and Eleanor took Tabitha to her mansion on Nantucket. Billy is a down-to-earth electrician, and Eleanor is a snooty elitist who would welcome only Old Boston blue-bloods to her home as long as they patronized her designer clothing store.
The twins haven’t seen each other in fourteen years, having become seriously estranged when Tabitha’s second child died. Their relationship had been already frayed before the death of Tabitha’s preemie baby, as the difference in their parents’ styles had set them along separate paths. Thirty-nine-year-old Harper was a beer-and-a-shot gal, wearing Billy’s clothes when she found something of his that fit, and she worked as a messenger bicyclist and waitress. Tabitha had become a upper-class breeder looking for someone for whom to be a trophy wife, but meanwhile managing her mother’s boutique. Tabitha’s daughter Ainsley is a 16-going-on-45-kid, drugs and alcohol in her system most of her days. Harper is childless.
When Billy dies, leaving his rundown house to the twins, the two women are both in the middle of relationships which are blowing up in their faces. One of the things common to both Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, everybody takes sides when relationships are going askew or dying. Events begin taking a sideways turn to slapstick comedy which neither appreciates, and the twins find themselves trading places to reluctantly help the other; but they each are actually running away from their significant friends and family.
The shift of perspective results in monumental changes for the twins.
So, maybe the ending isn’t HUGE or a surprise. Bite me.