Georgia and Bessi are twins and they live in the loft of their parents house, making decisions on the bean bag and surviving their father's rages and their mother's dreams of Africa. For one of the twins the journey into adulthood is not easy and they both have to struggle to find their own, separate, way into the world. This book is like entering a magical kingdom, where imagination and joy seep into every page, until, like in the twins life reality seeps in. All characters have their own back story that brings them to life, and you feel real sypmathy for all the characters, especially Georgia and her fragile hold on life. Evans has a talent for depicting the descent into depression and it surrounds and envelopes you. 26a is not a depressing book, however - it crackles and fizzes with life throughout its 230 pages.
"She had developed a strong aversion to sugar. Sugar was like funfairs and love, music with words and lipstick with lipgloss, it was sudden movement glitter and carnival hotpants, flapjack empires that wasn't famous, wild fields and Hendrix in the forest, walking the clouds with Bessi, watching the sea with Toby, all of that, all of that outside. Sugar was alive. Sugar was an accusation"
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