The Twins by Saskia Sarginson was picked as The Bookseller’s Book of the Month for August. The novel was in Sarah Broadhurst’s Paperback Preview: ‘a perfect R&J summer read…

…, a psychological thriller of sisters and a dreadful childhood incident, the details of which are drip fed to us throughout the book, building layers of complexity to the story at each revelation. We get happy rural childhood memories contrasting with one twin severely anorexic and hospitalised, the other recently redundant and digging up the past. An unstable mother, boys from the ‘bad’ family and an unwelcome possible step-family, the tragic incident could be any of a fistful of problems. Highly compulsive, it is Piatkus’ super lead of the year, the one it really gets behind.’