Books by Saskia Sarginson
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review 1: For a novel with such an intriguing blurb, this was quite a chore to read. The prose was nice and the author clearly has talent but the story was all over the place. It danced around the past making the flashback style anecdotes rather dull and seemingly pointless, and even the p...
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review 1: This book started off slow for me then towards the end I felt like the story was being rushed to end. However, it was a good story about a girl who is thrown overboard while sailing with her father. The father is rescued and Eva, the girl and his daughter, floats to an island not...
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review 1: Loved this. Beautifully written. The writing weaves through the years, told from each twin's perspective. Explores the relationship between the girls, and builds up a colourful and heartbreaking background. My only criticism is that the addition of a pause or break in the text la...
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review 1: This book is simple wonderful! From the way the way it is structured, the switch between past and present and the very clever suspense which is built from the very first page. I fell in love with the way Sarginson uses the innocence of youth to show the harsh reality of adulthood...
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review 1: Inseparable, identical twins live a charmed life alone with their mother. Along comes another set of twins for them to be friends with, and a boyfriend for their mother, and their lives change dramatically. Now in their twenties Isolte is a successful fashion editor and Viola is...