Kate and Alice. Sisters. So diferent and so much the same.

Kate, the one who'd done something with the looks, the sense of style, they'd both shared. Her life: the world of fashion and fashionable places. Keeping in touch between trips abroad. A world of airports and exotic destinations, spring collections and sensupus fabrics, of beautiful people and immaculately skin-deep emotions.

And Alice, her twin and once inseparable companion. Living now in the suburbs with a nice, boyish husband and a house that was always a mess.

Alice pregnant. Then Alice a mother: lovingly flustered, scatty, almost coping but never quite. Each now a warm, living reproach to the other as Kate, cooly organised, descended to help out in her sister's crises.

Each now with an ache of regret for what might have been. Neither foreseeing that her way of life was not as stable as she thought.

Happy Reading!

Having realised just how many books I have had for so long, passing on for someone else to enjoy.

Left on the book shelves at PC24, out of hours GP service. 50p donation per book, all funds raised go to Help for Heroes.