Ann Morgan
Hardcover | Pages: 315 pages Rating: 3.6 | 5300 Users | 731 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Beside Myself |
| ISBN: | 1632864339 (ISBN13: 9781632864338) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Beside Myself is a literary thriller about identical twins, Ellie and Helen, who swap places aged six. At first it is just a game, but then Ellie refuses to swap back. Forced into her new identity, Helen develops a host of behavioural problems, delinquency and chronic instability. With their lives diverging sharply, one twin headed for stardom and the other locked in a spiral of addiction and mental illness, how will the deception ever be uncovered? Exploring questions of identity, selfhood, and how other people's expectations affect human behaviour, this novel is as gripping as it is psychologically complex.Mention Out Of Books Beside Myself
| Title | : | Beside Myself |
| Author | : | Ann Morgan |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 315 pages |
| Published | : | January 12th 2016 by Bloomsbury |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Mystery. Thriller. Mystery Thriller. Psychological Thriller. Audiobook |
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Ratings: 3.6 From 5300 Users | 731 ReviewsCriticize Out Of Books Beside Myself
I thought this was an excellent book. It wasn't at all what I expected, but it turned out to be brilliantly gripping, illuminating and disturbing. It has important things to say about identity, compassion and mental illness.I thought Beside Myself was going to be yet another variation on the old Identical Twins trope in thrillers, but it's actually an acute and powerful portrait of Helen, a troubled young girl whose identity is stripped from her, and her subsequent life as she develops bipolarThank you to the Author/Publisher for my free copy in exchange for an honest review. Beside myself is a Psychological book about a pair of young twins who for a game decide to swap identities. Helen is the dominant twin who seems to find life a lot easier than her sister Ellie who is simpler (or so Helen thought), they swap places but after having a little taste of what it is like to be the more favourable twin Ellie decides she isn't going to swap back. Their mother Margaret doesn't believe a
DNF somewhere towards the last bit. Probably should have read the ending to see how it all works out. Didn't bother to finish it. Interesting concept about twins exchanging places and identity. Was going to give it 3 stars initially as promising.
I have a feeling that 2016 is going to be the year of the psychological thriller! I can only hope so, Its my favourite genre! Thankfully I managed to score an advanced copy of this little beauty Beside Myself, and I loved it!Helen and Ellie are identical twins. There was a complication at birth and the cord was wrapped around Ellies neck for an extended period of time and because of this she wasnt quite right. Sickly, and mentally slow compared to her sister, Ellie lived in Helens shadow. One
Phew that was some read!My View:Powerful! Intense! Confronting! This book has it all. This book was a very difficult read- I read the first fifty pages or so and was in a dilemma to continue or not? I found these first pages strangely horrific the voice of the little girl, Helen, who constantly seeks to teach her a lesson (her being her twin sister Ellie), Helens voice is so nasty and malevolent I considered not reading any further. (And then there was the underlying hint of potential sexual
There have been many novels penned about twins. So interesting to have two separate personalities who look identical. We cant resist wondering what it would be like. After reading this novel, I NEVER want to find out. I was filled with angst and misgiving much like the feeling I used to get watching old movies where the heroine was committed to a mental hospital when there was nothing wrong with her. The injustice of it all!Smudge is a beguiling and well wrought character that the reader just
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