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Article: Evans, Diana. 26a (Brief article)(Audiobook review)
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EVANS, Diana. 26a; a novel. Read by Adjoa Andoh. 8 cds. 10.25 hrs. BBC Audiobooks America. 2005. 0-7927-3925-6. $79.95. Vinyl; plot, author, reader notes. SA
Georgia and Bessi Hunter are identical twins, daughters of a Nigerian mother and a British father. Aubrey turns tyrannical and brutish when drinking and Ida suffers severe depression from homesickness. The twins and their sisters long for peace and harbor a naive hope that the fairy tale marriage of Charles and Diana may renew a spark of lost love in their parents. The children share varying degrees of psychic abilities and other-worldliness from their African ancestry. The novel frequently becomes ...