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244 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1980
What my father needed more than a wife was sons. On Rass, sons represented wealth and security. What my mother bore him was girls, twin girls. I was the elder by a few minutes. I always treasured the thought of those minutes. They represented the only time in my life when I was the centre of everyone's attention. From the moment Caroline was born, she snatched it all for herself.Her cruel grandmother compares the girls to the Biblical brothers Jacob and Esau. She takes pleasure in taunting Sara Louise by quoting from the Bible,
Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hatedonly deepening Sara Louise’s resentment for Caroline. It is this jealousy that threatens to embitter her for life. Sara Louise’s journey is a solitary one and it is impossible not to feel her exquisite loneliness.