Word: edwina
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...didn't have anything to disclose with her previous novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, because even after numerous attempts I have not yet successfully traveled in time. But Her Fearful Symmetry (Scribner; 406 pages) is about a pair of identical twins, Julia and Valentina, whose mother and aunt, Edwina and Elspeth, are also identical twins...
Niffenegger is not, as far as I can ascertain, a twin, but she is a consummate pro, and she gives it a solid try. Edwina and Elspeth--the mom and the aunt--are estranged from each other, and when Elspeth dies, she leaves her apartment, which overlooks Highgate Cemetery in London, to her twin nieces Julia and Valentina, on the condition that they spend a year living there. Julia and Valentina are 20 years old, ash blond, pretty and skinny. They're bright, aimless, dreamy college dropouts who live at home. They don't have jobs. They're virgins...
...fight his way to the grandstand, at one point knocking off the turban of a man who had gotten in his way. He was worried for the safety of his friends, the last British viceroy Lord Mountbatten, who was a cousin of England's monarch, and his wife Edwina, with whom Nehru was secretly enamored. But Mountbatten knew of another secret that would cause great grief...
since learning that former prime minister JOHN MAJOR carried on an extramarital affair 14 years ago, British citizens seem divided over whether they should chastise or cheer him. The revelations came with the serialized publication of the diaries of EDWINA CURRIE, who disclosed that between 1984 and 1988, when both she and Major were married and serving in government, they shared a passion for more than just Tory ideology. Major, who became Prime Minister in 1990, had a reputation for being a bland bureaucrat, an image reinforced by his "Back to Basics" campaign, an attempt to upgrade the image...
When John Major succeeded Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister, some wondered whether he would ever prove himself half the man the Iron Lady had been. Edwina Currie's newly published diaries - in which the novelist and former Conservative minister reveals that she and Major had an affair from 1984 to '88 - should ensure that the former Tory leader will never again be so easily underestimated. Since the book came out, Currie has added details about the liaison, including how she and Major planned assignations as they sat behind Thatcher during Prime Minister's Question Time in the House of Commons...