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The Silent Twins: Now a major motion picture starring Letitia Wright Spiral-Bound | May 12, 2011

Marjorie Wallace

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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, hate, and genius 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 grueling 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.
Publisher: Independent Publishers Group
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 336 pages
ISBN-10: 009958641X
Item Weight: 0.6 lbs
Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.8 x 7.8 inches
"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

"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 compelling and tragic story" —Mail on Sunday

"Breathtaking" —Independent
Marjorie Wallace is an award-winning journalist, author, playwright, and broadcaster, and has won nine major awards for her journalism, books, and plays. She is currently Chief Executive of SANE, the mental health charity, which she helped to found. Marjorie Wallace (Countess Skarbeck) is married and lives in London with her three sons, Sacha, Stefan, and Justin, and daughter, Sophia Augusta.