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In this week’s mini, we’re talking about twins in fiction, from Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet and Stephen King’s The Shining to some lesser-known gems. Plus, we have a letter from a new listener who wrote to us after hearing our episode about her late mother, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.  

Discussed in this episode: 

Lost Ladies of Lit on Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Heat and Dust with Brigitte Hales

Merchant Ivory Films

Julian Sands

A Room with a View(1985 film)

The Parent Trap(1961 film)

Lottie and Lisa by Erich Kastner

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

Young Man with a Horn by Dorothy Baker

Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker

“The Wolves” by Sarah DeLappe

Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld

Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger

The Shining by Stephen King

Christopher and Columbus by Elizabeth von Arnim

The Recess by Sophia Lee

Sister Novelists by Devoney Looser

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