June and Jennifer were born identical twins in 1963. Their father was an assistant air traffic controller in the RAF; their mother was kept busy with the twins and their three siblings. When the twins were young, the family moved to Haverfordwest in South Wales. They were the only black family in the whole town. From an early age the twins had a close, almost psychic relationship. As they grew up this developed so that they became silent. They would not talk to anyone else. Communication with other people was impossible ...
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June and Jennifer were born identical twins in 1963. Their father was an assistant air traffic controller in the RAF; their mother was kept busy with the twins and their three siblings. When the twins were young, the family moved to Haverfordwest in South Wales. They were the only black family in the whole town. From an early age the twins had a close, almost psychic relationship. As they grew up this developed so that they became silent. They would not talk to anyone else. Communication with other people was impossible (they did all their shopping by mail order) and they were sent to a special school. They had no friends, they were operated on, their tongues were cut in the mistaken belief that they suffered speech impediment. When they were 16, they had nowhere to go except on the dole. This is the true story of the "silent twins" who turned to arson and ended up in Broadmoor.
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New. 0138102767. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-212 pages; Book Club Edition. From the dust jacket: "This is an extraordinary story of identical twin girls, June and Jennifer Gibbons, in a state of irreconciliable battle with themselves and the world. Now in their twenties, from early childhood they refused to speak to any adult. Instead, they developed an elaborate fantasy life that was based on dolls (represenations of themselves that they ritually loved and killed), diaries, poems, stories, novels and Bronte-like miniature books. They have written almost a million words recording every detail of their emotions-their passionate struggle for identity and their conflicting desires for escape form and union with each other. From their self-imposed isolation they ventured into sprees of drug-taking, sex and arson, for which they were ultimately sent to Broadmoore-Britain's notorious hospital for for the criminally insane. There they are still baffling psychiatrists."--with a bonus offer--
