Childhood, sisterhood, rivalry, mathematics, medicine, fashion, art and unrequited loves ending in death ... grim stuff, eh?.......
Ask for Talavera Street and all the other streets named upon battles. "What! You live theer? Bloody Poles and Irish! Which is worse? You tell me"........
Of the two Ryan girls, dark Serena decides she is a Polish, but Little Jen, with her pale skin and red hair, has to be an Irish.
The two creatures vow to share everything, for ever. A sweet idea when young becomes a deadly symbiotic fantasy in adult life and it results in disaster for the men who are carried along with it. A miniature epic of complicity and obsession, lit up by glints from the giant, glittering mirror-scaled serpent of madness.
Only Jenny's self-sacrifice makes a space for her sister to live a completed life..... Recent comments include `I felt like I was reading a classic' and ' an unnerving story'.
Recently given an overall re-edit in response to authonomy members useful comments - my thanks to them.
Also available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Authorhouse etc..... in an earlier self-published edition.