But (being a stranger to dishonesty) she feels increasingly uncomfortable with the part she is having to play. Here she meets Antony's delightful extended family and is welcomed with open arms. So she goes with him to Scotland - where the bulk of the story takes place - pretending to be her twin. Her honest nature baulks at living a lie, yet her naturally generous side is moved by Antony's appeal to do a good turn. She is temporarily a little envious of her sister's evident wealth and casual confidence, but quickly realises that she is probably the happier of the two.īecause Flora is a nice person, she gets drawn into a plan to play out a masquerade: to go with Rose's ex-fiancé Antony to meet his grandmother, who is seriously ill. Instead it focuses on Flora, a friendly and caring person who was brought up in Cornwall by her father. The story doesn't switch between the perspectives of the twins, as I thought it might.
By a somewhat unlikely coincidence they meet, for the first time, in their early twenties. They look identical, but have rather different personalities. Bizarrely, neither parent mentioned the existence of a twin to the child they raised. Rose and Flora are twins, separated at birth when their parents divorced, and decided to take one of them each. I last read 'Under Gemini' in 1999 so it was more than time for a re-read. How I love Rosamunde Pilcher's books! Both her longer sagas and her shorter, lighter romances have the most wonderful characters who get right under my skin, almost from the first chapter.
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