For twin sisters Isabel and Verity, the sisterhood rules were shattered when Verity had an affair with Izzy's husband. Unforgivable, right? Devastated by her sister's betrayal, Izzy casts Verity into social Siberia.
But when their mother goes missing, Verity and Izzy are forced to come together again to find her. And then the estranged sisters' problems only get bigger. Their mother has a new younger lover and where there's a will… he'd clearly like to be in it.
Can they stop their mother making a dreadful mistake? And in doing so find a way to bury the pain of the past?
“‘Ah, but autumn is just as beautiful as spring … so much has been written and sung about beautiful young women, but why doesn’t anyone write sonnets or symphonies about the beauty of older women? Nor spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face’”
I’ve been aware of Kathy Lette for a while now because she is a prolific writer and now I’ll definitely be picking up some more of her books. She captures the essence of being an older woman in the most relatable ways with a cheeky flair and a lot of heart.
The Sisterhood Rules brings us two women who broke the unwritten rules of girlhood, but need to come together again — it starts off with a lot of backstory told through the conversations between our twins, teetering almost into too much info dump too soon and had a few repetitive moments in the early chapters but it kept a fabulous pace with a fun, energetic flow that just worked and was so easy to read. Our characters were wonderful — Isabella tells the story about how Verity not only stole her husband but still pretends to be the better sister. Isabella dropped out of a prestigious music programme to play rock shows with her drummer boyfriend (bad move) while Verity is polished, adult — at least on the surface. At the start, I didn’t like either of them, found them petulant, judgemental, childish; but they grew on me so quickly.
The tension between the sisters was written perfectly, watching them regress into petty children at times but then their desperation to find their mum forcing them together with a fragile, fraught new relationship that felt like a pressure cooker, especially when they could never expect what they’d actually find there. The journey to find their mother wasn’t the adventure, it was trying to figure out what to do next and utter chaos ensues.
A joyous exploration of female sensuality and not growing invisible when we old, and a love letter to the women who lift us up. So much fun.
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- I was gifted a reviewers copy of this title in return for a review.
- This title includes conversations around assisted dying, death or terminal illness, sexual content, family issues.
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