The girls grow up surrounded by mirrors - to enable them to see each other - under the gaze of their adopted parents. Identical twins who refuse to dress the same, they "hate doing things in unison". The major incidents in their lives - the perpetual sorrow of their near-neighbours, who lost their only son in the tornado which heralded the twins' birth; a prank by a playmate which almost leads to their drowning at their eighth birthday party; a joint crush on the dissolute Frankie Foyle, who gives Ruby her first kiss and simultaneously takes Rose's virginity - are interwoven with tender depictions of Lovey and Stash's courtship
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