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I See You Everywhere

Louisa and Clem: two sisters who love each other more the further they move apart

Louisa is the elder one, the conscientious student, precise and careful, who yearns for a good marriage, a career, a family. Clem, the archetypal younger sibling, is the rebel: uncontainable, iconoclastic, committed to her work but not to the men who fall for her.

Alternating between their voices, I See You Everywhere opens when the sisters are in their early twenties and unfolds through their lives in a vivid, heart-rending story of what we can and cannot do for those we love. Their complex bond, Louisa observes, is 'like a double helix, two souls coiling around a common axis, joined yet never touching.'

Alive with the same sensual detail and riveting characterization that marks Julia Glass's previous novels, I See You Everywhere is a powerful and moving double portrait that reveals the very nature of sisterhood.

The best novels entrance us by showing what is missed in life as much as by what's discovered; this is one.

Daily Telegraph

About Julia Glass

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  • Imprint: Arrow
  • ISBN: 9780099502937
  • Length: 304 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm
  • Weight: 211g
  • Price: £7.99
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