The Silent Twin
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The Silent Twins
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Author : Marjorie Wallace
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-08-31
The Silent Twins written by Marjorie Wallace and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-31 with Social Science categories.
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 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. 'Breathtaking' Independent 'Extraordinary' Oliver Sacks, New York Times Review of Books
The Silent Twin
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Author : Caroline Mitchell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-04-14
The Silent Twin written by Caroline Mitchell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-14 with Knight, Jennifer (Fictitious character) categories.
Nine-year-old twins Abigail and Olivia vow never to be parted. But when Abigail goes missing from Blackwater Farm, DC Jennifer Knight must find her before it's too late. Twin sister Olivia has been mute since Abigail's disappearance. But when she whispers in Jennifer's ear, Jennifer realizes it is Abigail's voice pleading to be found.
The Pepsi Cola Addict
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Author : June-Alison Gibbons
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2023-05-30
The Pepsi Cola Addict written by June-Alison Gibbons and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-30 with Fiction categories.
The legendary lost novel in which fourteen-year-old Preston Wildey-King must choose between his all-consuming passion for Pepsi Cola and his love for schoolmate Peggy. "He walked into the turbulent super market. There were people everywhere. His eyes swept over the shelves and stabilised on a large stack of Pepsi-colas. He could almost experience the cool fizzy liquid descending his parched throat." Written by June-Alison Gibbons when she was only 16, The Pepsi Cola Addict is considered one of the great works of twentieth-century outsider literature. More than just a literary curiosity, however, this tale of a teenager whose passion for a well-known cola drink threatens to ruin his life is the uniquely vivid expression of a young woman trying to make sense of the confusing, often brutal world she in which found herself. Published in 1982 by a vanity press who took £800 from its young author and gave her only a single book in return, it's thought that fewer than ten original copies still exist in the world. Shortly after its publication, June-Alison and her sister Jennifer would become infamous as "The Silent Twins" and find themselves cruelly incarcerated for over a decade in Broadmoor Hospital. This author-approved edition makes June-Alison Gibbon's remarkable vision widely available for the first time.
The Silent Twins
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Author : Cryptic Thriller Reads
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2022-12-09
The Silent Twins written by Cryptic Thriller Reads and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-09 with categories.
The story of June and Jennifer Gibbons, commonly referred to as the Silent Twins, is one of the most astonishing examples of sisterhood and communication in modern history. These two identical twins spent their entire life in Wales almost together and speaking a language that no one else could understand, they could communicate with the outside world through writing. Their odd relationship caught the attention of the media almost immediately, and their peculiar story would eventually become a subject of intrigue for people all over the world. "The Silent Twins" recounts the tragic events that occurred in the lives of June and Jennifer Gibbons. The girls and their parents, who were from the Caribbean, were the only black residents of their Wales neighborhood. As a result of being the focus of bullying at school and being ostracized by their peers from a young age, they withdrew into their own world and ceased communicating with others. As a means of coping with their situation, they constructed an intricate fantasy life for themselves. Officials at the British school, troubled by the girls' behavior, determined that the girls suffered from mental illness and attempted to separate them. As youths, their obstinate behavior put them in a severe mental facility for therapy. This book takes a look at their exceptional lives, taking into account the sisters' odd relationship, the effects of their silence, and the enduring effects they had on their surroundings.
The Silent Twins
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Author : Patricia R Larsen
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2022-11-28
The Silent Twins written by Patricia R Larsen and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-28 with categories.
For those unfamiliar with the Silent Twins story, I would like to share a tale that will forever alter your life. In many ways, this was the saddest and most devastating narrative of love and loss ever written... but it also teaches us so much about ourselves and the world we live in that it cannot help but be uplifting as well. However, if you do not enjoy reading about death and suffering, I would advise you not to read this book! June and Jennifer Gibbons, identical twins from London who were born in the 1940s, were inseparable-so inseparable, in fact, that they never developed linguistic abilities beyond twin-speak. It is unknown whether their condition was caused by autism or schizophrenia, but it is evident that the girls' lives were terrible and ended prematurely. Extremely bullied and shunned as the only Black family in the community, the pair retreated into one another. Despite their lifelong struggle with mental illness, the lives of the silent twins were filled with sorrow, but also love, commitment, and hope.
Entwined
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Author : Joyce Wallace Scott
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2016-06-28
Entwined written by Joyce Wallace Scott and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The remarkable story of “outsider” artist Judith Scott, who was institutionalized for more than thirty years before being reunited with her sister From birth, fraternal twins Judith and Joyce Scott lived as if they were one person in two bodies, understanding instinctively what the other wanted and felt, despite the fact that Judy had Down syndrome, profound deafness, and never learned to speak or sign. But this idyllic childhood of color, texture, and feeling ended abruptly when, at age seven, Judy was taken from their shared bed while Joyce slept, not knowing that the wholeness they had known was being shattered. For the next three decades, Joyce is left without her other half and must grieve unexpected loss while navigating her relationship with an emotionally distant mother—alone. Even so, her life parallels her twin’s in surprising ways. While in college, Joyce too is sent away, pressured to relinquish the secret daughter she bore in hiding to adoption. Decades later, Joyce resolves to reunite with her sister and fill their remaining years with joy. After overcoming legal hurdles to become Judy’s legal guardian, she enrolls her in an art center for adults with disabilities in Oakland, California. Judy is hesitant at first, but after two years of uninterested painting and drawing, her untapped creativity suddenly ignites when she is introduced to fiber art, and she begins carefully and intentionally winding yarn and other materials around combinations of found objects. With unflagging intensity, Judy works five days a week for the next eighteen years, producing more than two-hundred astoundingly diverse fiber sculptures. Unconcerned with her growing fame, she remains fully immersed in her artistic vision until her death in 2005. Today, Judith Scott’s work is displayed in museums and galleries around the world, in some of the most prestigious collections of contemporary art. Entwined is a penetrating personal narrative that explores a complex world of disability, loss, reunion, and the resiliency of the human spirit. Part memoir, part biography, Entwined is a poignant and astonishing story about sisters finding their voices in each other’s love and through art.
The Twin
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Author : Gerbrand Bakker
language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Release Date : 2010-11-26
The Twin written by Gerbrand Bakker and has been published by ReadHowYouWant.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-26 with Fiction categories.
When his twin brother dies in a car accident, Helmer is obliged to return to the small family farm. He resigns himself to taking over his brother's role and spending the rest of his days 'with his head under a cow'. After his old, worn-out father has been transferred upstairs, Helmer sets about furnishing the rest of the house according to his own minimal preferences. 'A double bed and a duvet', advises Ada, who lives next door, with a sly look. Then Riet appears, the woman once engaged to marry his twin. Could Riet and her son live with him for a while, on the farm?'The Twin' is an ode to the platteland, the flat and bleak Dutch countryside with its ditches and its cows and its endless grey skies. Ostensibly a novel about the countryside, as seen through the eyes of a farmer, 'the Twin' is, in the end, about the possibility or impossibility of taking life into one's own hands. It chronicles a way of life which has resisted modernity, is culturally apart, and yet riven with a kind of romantic longing. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
The Quiet Twin
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Author : Dan Vyleta
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-02-02
The Quiet Twin written by Dan Vyleta and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-02 with Fiction categories.
Vienna, 1939. Professor Speckstein's dog has been brutally killed and he wants to know why. But these are uncharitable times and one must be careful where one probes... When an unexpected house call leads Doctor Beer to Speckstein's apartment, he finds himself in the bedroom of Zuzka, the professor's niece. Wide-eyed, flirtatious, and not detectably ill, Zuzka leads the young doctor to her window and opens up a view of their apartment block that Beer has never known. Across the shared courtyard there is nine-year-old Anneliese, the lonely daughter of an alcoholic. Five windows to the left lives a secretive mime who comes home late at night and keeps something - or someone - precious hidden from view. From the garret drifts the mournful sound of an Oriental's trumpet, and a basement door swings closed behind the building's inscrutable janitor. Does one of these enigmatic neighbours have blood on their hands? Doctor Beer, who has his own reasons for keeping his private life hidden from public scrutiny, reluctantly becomes embroiled in an enquiry that forces him to face the dark realities of Nazi rule.
The Truth Teller S Tale
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Author : Sharon Shinn
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2007-04-05
The Truth Teller S Tale written by Sharon Shinn and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-05 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
Innkeeper’s daughters Adele and Eleda are “mirror twins”—identical twins whose looks are reflections of each other’s—and their special talents are like mirrors, too. Adele is a Safe-Keeper, entrusted with hearing and never revealing others’ secrets; Eleda is a Truth-Teller, who cannot tell a lie when asked a direct question. The town of Merendon relies on the twins, no one more than their best friend, Roelynn Karro, whose strict, wealthy father is determined to marry her off to the prince. When the girls are seventeen, a handsome dancing-master and his apprentice come to stay at the inn, and thus begins a chain of romance, mistaken identity, and some very surprising truths and falsehoods.
A Bit Of A Stretch
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Author : Chris Atkins
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2020-02-06
A Bit Of A Stretch written by Chris Atkins and has been published by Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-06 with Social Science categories.
'Shocking, scathing, entertaining.' Guardian 'Incredibly compelling.' The Times 'Heart-breaking.' Sunday Times Where can a tin of tuna buy you clean clothes? Where is it easier to get 'spice' than paracetamol? Where does self-harm barely raise an eyebrow? Welcome to Her Majesty's Prison Service. Like most people, documentary-maker Chris Atkins didn't spend much time thinking about prisons. But after becoming embroiled in a dodgy scheme to fund his latest film, he was sent down for five years. His new home would be HMP Wandsworth, one of the largest and most dysfunctional prisons in Europe. With a cast of characters ranging from wily drug dealers to senior officials bent on endless reform, this powerful memoir uncovers the horrifying reality behind the locked gates. Filled with dark humour and shocking stories, A Bit of a Stretch reveals why our creaking prison system is sorely costing us all - and why you should care.