She is temporarily a little envious of her sister's evident wealth and casual confidence, but quickly realises that she is probably the happier of the two.īecause Flora is a nice person, she gets drawn into a plan to play out a masquerade: to go with Rose's ex-fiancé Antony to meet his grandmother, who is seriously ill. Instead it focuses on Flora, a friendly and caring person who was brought up in Cornwall by her father. The story doesn't switch between the perspectives of the twins, as I thought it might. By a somewhat unlikely coincidence they meet, for the first time, in their early twenties. They look identical, but have rather different personalities. Bizarrely, neither parent mentioned the existence of a twin to the child they raised. Rose and Flora are twins, separated at birth when their parents divorced, and decided to take one of them each. I last read 'Under Gemini' in 1999 so it was more than time for a re-read. How I love Rosamunde Pilcher's books! Both her longer sagas and her shorter, lighter romances have the most wonderful characters who get right under my skin, almost from the first chapter.
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