The Silent Twins
  • Published: 7 June 1996
  • ISBN: 9780099586418
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $24.99
Categories:

The Silent Twins

Now a major motion picture starring Letitia Wright

Buy from…
Amazon Booktopia Dymocks QBD Readings Your Bookstore Abbeys Boomerang Find local retailers Find local retailers Collins Fishpond Gleebooks Harry Hartog Kinokuniya Robinsons The Nile Mighty Ape

The harrowing true story of sisters locked in a shocking childhood pact - now adapted into a major new motion picture starring Letitia Wright

The astounding true story behind the major new motion picture starring Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance, with a new epilogue from the author

'A compelling and tragic story' Mail on Sunday
'Breathtaking' Independent
'Extraordinary' Oliver Sacks, New York Times Review of Books

When identical twins, June and Jennifer Gibbons were three they began to reject communication with anyone but each other, and so began a childhood bound together in a strange and secret world. As they grew up, love and hate united to push them to the extreme margins of society and, following a five week spree of vandalism and arson, the silent twins were sentenced to a gruelling twelve-year detention in Broadmoor.

Award-winning investigative journalist Marjorie Wallace delves into the twins' silent world, revealing their genius, alienation and the mystic bond by which the extremes of good and evil ended in possession and death.
  • Published: 7 June 1996
  • ISBN: 9780099586418
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $24.99
Categories:

About the author

Marjorie Wallace

Marjorie Wallace is the founder and chief executive of Sane mental health charity. Wallace is an award winning writer, broadcaster and investigative journalist. Following her Forgotten Illness campaign in the Times, she founded the leading mental health charity, Sane. She is an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Praise for The Silent Twins

Strange, riveting... Thanks to Marjorie Wallace, thanks to the twins' incorrigible brilliance, we now have some idea of what it is like to stand in front of a dark mirror

London Review of Books

A remarkable (and finally tragic) story which, in its depth, penetration and detail, no less than its extraordinary subject matter, must be seen as outstanding, a testimony to something extraordinary in the author herself

New York Times Review of Books

A compelling and tragic story

Mail on Sunday

Breathtaking

Independent
penguin pop image
penguin pop image