In post-war London,
actress Sylvia Bollusk develops an alarming growth in
her armpit.
The growth is Anthea.
As Sylvia
stands in the Mall in the pouring rain watching the
coronation procession, Anthea speaks for the first time.
An irresistibly funny, subtly wise
and zestfully romantic fairy tale
for adults
THE FIRST TIME I HEARD ANTHEA
SPEAK
It is the story of Sylvia
Bollusk, a woman both ordinary and extraordinary, and her
struggle for survival.
She is a failed actress, trying to make ends meet in
post-war austerity Britain by whatever means she can.
Most of her family and her four previous husbands have been
annihilated in tragic circumstances. Then she meets Dickie,
the jaunty prosthetic limb salesman, who she knows, in her
heart, is the one. But the happy ending she longs for is
jeopardized when she succumbs to the terrible hereditary
condition Latent Twin Syndrome, and Anthea develops.
The climax is a breathless swirl played out to the giddy
music of a hurdy-gurdy.
Sibling rivalry at its most extreme, only one of the sisters
will survive the surgery to separate them. Which one will it
be?
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