Mirror Image
The moving historical tale of love, family and conflicting destiny from the bestselling author Danielle Steel
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4.3 • 12 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
To look at one was to see the other...
The twins Olivia and Victoria Henderson, two remarkable young women coming of age at the turn of the century, held a bond that was mysterious, marvelous, and often playful–a secret realm only they inhabited.
Following their mother's death, Olivia took over the role in their lush New York estate, managing not only the household but also her rebellious twin's flights of fancy. Free-spirited Victoria wanted to change the world, but when her life was about to descend into public scandal her father intervenes.
Handsome lawyer Charles Dawson is hand-picked to save Victoria's reputation. But in an act of deception that only Olivia and Victoria could manage, the twins took an irrevocable step, which changed both their lives forever...
From Manhattan society to the trenches of war-ravaged France, Mirror Image moves elegantly and dramatically through a rich and troubled era, portraying the contrasting destinies of two vastly different sisters...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The raven-haired twins in Steel's (The Klone and I) latest romance wend their way through the social dilemmas and crises of conscience that abound in the lives of two motherless heiresses. Flitting around Edith Wharton's New York and its fashionable countryside (the family home, Henderson Manor, is in Croton-on-Hudson), Olivia and Victoria Henderson come of age in high style and predictable prose. Their physical resemblance (even their father is unable to distinguish between them) exaggerates their temperamental differences. The rebel Victoria--smoker, drinker and suffragette--recklessly gives herself to a married womanizer, Tobias Whitticomb. Olivia dutifully keeps her father's houses and acts as the anxious guardian to her "baby" sister. She also befriends nine-year-old Geoff Dawson, whose mother has died on the Titanic. When Henderson pere decides to marry the disgraced Victoria to Geoff's father, Charles, Olivia's heart quietly breaks and the plot thickens. The convenience of the sisters' carbon-copy looks allows Victoria to run off to help the Allied cause in France and Olivia secretly to take her sister's place. Although Steel stretches credibility as the marriage heats up (Charles didn't notice that his wife was virginal again?), the reader is too busy being moved by the powerful events to quibble. Steel doesn't flinch from the realities of childbirth and war and reliably produces yet another suspenseful tearjerker.
