'Please, I need your help. You're the only person I can turn to. The only person who can pretend to be me...'

When Alice gets a desperate message from her estranged identical twin sister Cecily, she can't help herself. She has to say yes. Pushing down the memories of the terrible childhood that ultimately tore them apart, she arrives at her sister's house.

Cecily has left instructions: how to work the oven, what to cook for supper, what to say to her husband.

She says she'll only be gone a week. She just needs to contact a lawyer, sort her head out, and work out how to get away from her marriage safely.

Alice barely knows why she's agreed. But as she puts the key in the door, she wonders if – in coming to help her sister – she might be putting herself in the most terrible danger.

Because when Cecily stops replying to messages, and the words 'die, die, die'...]]> Fri, 23 Aug 2024 08:01:16 +0300 https://graycity.net/saskia-sarginson/662263-the_central_line.html https://graycity.net/saskia-sarginson/662263-the_central_line.html
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Sometimes, the truth lies in fiction

It's hard to be an American girl in 1957. Especially when your dad's job means you have to move four thousand miles from home. Especially if you'd rather play baseball than wear a dress. Especially if you see your mom fraying a little more from anxiety each day. And especially if being five minutes older means you have to protect your fragile twin brother.

Still, Hedy Delaney loves her family, and she's trying to make the best of her new life on a U.S. airbase in England. After all, her dad's a war hero, her mother's a beauty, and her brother's a brainiac who writes moving stories about space travel.

Then one tragic day, the unforeseen occurs and all three are ripped away, leaving Hedy alone with countless questions. What really happened on the airbase? What went on behind military closed doors? What were the secrets that could never be told? And how could any of it have led to her family's destruction?

In her...]]> Tue, 20 Dec 2016 13:48:47 +0200 https://graycity.net/saskia-sarginson/547169-the_bench.html https://graycity.net/saskia-sarginson/547169-the_bench.html
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1984 - Suffolk, England.
When 17-year-old Eva goes missing at sea, everyone presumes that she drowned. Her parents' relationship is falling apart, undermined by guilt and grief. But her younger sister, Faith, refuses to consider a life without Eva; she's determined to find her sister and bring her home alive.
Close to the shore looms the shape of an island — out of bounds, mysterious, and dotted with windowless concrete huts. What nobody knows is that inside one of the huts Eva is being held captive. That she is fighting to survive — and return home...]]> Thu, 27 Nov 2014 18:33:18 +0200 https://graycity.net/saskia-sarginson/435413-the_twins.html https://graycity.net/saskia-sarginson/435413-the_twins.html