THE SISTERS

The sisters: one lied, one died.
Abi cannot overcome the death of her twin sister Lucy, when one day she meets Bea, a girl with an uncanny resemblance to Lucy – and Bea’s twin brother, Ben, with whom she feels an irresistible attraction. Abi moves in with the two and soon realizes that she is part of a dangerous game between the two that could cost her sanity.

After the tragic death of her twin sister and a subsequent breakdown, Abi has moved to Bath to make a fresh start. But wherever she goes, she’s haunted by the memory of Lucy, and can’t stop herself from searching fruitlessly for her sister’s face in crowds. One day she meets Bea – a girl with an uncanny resemblance to Lucy – and Bea’s twin brother, Ben, with whom she feels an irresistible attraction.

Before long, Bea has invited Abi to live in their townhouse, and the girls grow closer and closer. However, Bea has an agenda of her own and when Abi and Ben begin to date, jealousy flares between his sister and his new girlfriend. Convinced that the sophisticated, clever Bea is victimising her in an attempt to get her out of the house, Abi begins to question her sanity, and must try to discover who she can really trust... before it’s too late.

THE SISTERS was picked by Cecelia Ahern as winner of the inaugural Marie Claire novel writing competition. THE SISTERS is clever upmarket women’s fiction, in the vein of Harriet Lane, Liane Moriarty and Rosamund Lupton. Told from two perspectives, of Abi and Bea, it is a novel of divided loyalties and unreliable narrators, that will constantly keep you guessing who to believe.

Claire Douglas has worked as a journalist for fifteen years writing features for women's magazines and national newspapers, but she's dreamed of being a novelist since the age of seven. She finally got her wish after winning the Marie Claire Debut Novel Award in 2013, with her first novel, THE SISTERS. She lives in Bath with her husband and two children.