The Sisters Antipodes

A gorgeous and deeply intimate memoir about families breaking apartWhen Jane Alison was a child her family met another that seemed like its mirror: a father in the Foreign Service a beautiful mother and two little girls the younger two (one of them Jane) sharing a birthday. The families became inseparable almost instantly. Within months however affairs ignited between the adults and before long the parents exchanged partners then divorced remarried and moved on. Two pairs of girls were left in shock a silent numb shock like a crack inside stone not enough to split it but inside silently fissuring that would prove tragic.