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You Must Be Sisters [Kindle Edition]

Deborah Moggach
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In respectable middle-class Harrow, three sisters are growing up and going their very different ways. Based on Moggach's rebellious student days in Bristol, this is a tale of sex, drugs and curiously uneasy freedom.

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'Assured and successful...Altogether a most satisfying and intelligent first novel.' Financial Times

'Sensitive and humorous.' Daily Express

'The happiest, saddest, funniest, most perceptive truth about growing up since The Catcher in the Rye.' Over 21

Claire - a model daughter, an imaginative teacher, as clear and legible as her handwriting.

Laura - a student, a beauty, as vital and rebellious as her parents could ever have feared for.

As children they had shared everything - so much so that later, neither sister could quite remember to which one of them some long-distant adventure had happened. Far from the leafy respectability of Harrow where they grew up, each is now going her distinctly seperate way in this warm, funny and poignant novel of coming-of-age.


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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 450 KB
  • Print Length: 226 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0099479729
  • Publisher: Vintage Digital (31 Mar 2012)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B00755MIAI
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #49,054 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Eileen Shaw TOP 500 REVIEWER
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Deborah Moggach nearly always produces a strong, plot driven story as well as depth of character, so I always enjoy reading her work. Here the focus is on two sisters - one, Claire, a fledgling teacher, the other, Laura, going to university for the first time.

Laura has a mind of her own and feels she has to plough her own furrow, but she ends up in quite a lot of trouble because she is determined to defy conventions. Claire is the sensible one and gets what she feels she deserves - love and marriage in the suburbs. In a sense this is about whether one fits easily into the snaky pathways one is given to traverse, or whether one rebels against them. The message is delivered loud and clear that it's best to tread the well-beaten paths of the herd than to take the road less travelled. It's not something everyone could subscribe to, this follow the herd mentality, and I feel the rebellious Laura is given the short end of the stick - though as the novel ends there are intimations that Laura is only temporarily lost to the fallacy of good intentions. Nice and neat, this one, with fewer of the rough edges and darker themes that Moggach has produced in the past. This is a minor moral tale that leaves a slight feeling of dissatisfaction. I expect more depth, more equanimity, more complexity, from this very good writer.
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I read this as afirst effort into getting back into taking time out to read and relax and as such it was enjoyable in a superficial sort of way. The characters were caricatures rather than real & muddled. It was easy to predict their next move.I did like Mac & his attitude to life, & the fathers unexpected attitude to him. There!!! The characters are not entirely predictable. A light read.
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independence 25 May 2012
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Clever beautiful Laura at 19 thinks everything about her family and background is so boring, as she starts at university she longs to be unconvential and independant.She soon discovers how lonely life on her own is.Pretty Claire steady, a decicated schoolteacher, who is very protective of her younger siblings, there is also Holly a preteen at boarding school.When all Lauras plans go wrong she has to turn to Claire, It is only then that she becomes truly independant.The story weaves among the sisters. Lovely descriptive language, Deborah paints with words.
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