MIRROR IMAGE

A novel that explores one of life''s most powerful and mysterious relationships - the bond between identical twins. To look at one was to see the other. For the family, even the girls'' own father, it was a constant guessing game. For strangers, the surprise was overwhelming. And between twins Olivia and Victoria their bond was mysterious, marvellous, and often playful - a secret realm only they inhabited. Olivia, born eleven minutes before her sister, was shy and serious, while free-spirited Victoria wanted to change the world, and embraced the women''s suffrage movement. Then in 1914, the girls'' twenty-first year, Victoria''s life was about to become a public scandal, and handsome lawyer Charles Dawson was brought in to save her reputation. In an act of deception that only Olivia and Victoria could manage, their lives were changed forever as one of the twins left for the battlefields of France, and the other moved into a marriage she longed for but thought she could not have. From Manhattan society to the trenches of war-torn France, Mirror Image moves elegantly and dramatically through a rich and troubled era. With startling insight, Danielle Steel explores women''s choices: between home and adventure, between the love for family and the passion for a cause, between sacrifice and desire, against a vivid backdrop of a world at war.