Twin Lit!
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Having recently turned two, one of our daughters has started thumbing through grown-up books. Ones without pictures. She was turning the pages on a book about New York real estate when she handed over the book to me today and announced, "Bruce Feiler." Bruce Feiler, it seems, is the author of any grown-up book.
Looks like it's time for her to meet the Mulgrays!
Like many identical twins, Helen and Morna Mulgray have always done everything together.
They have always shared the same bedroom, worn identical clothes and enjoyed the same books and television programmes. For three decades they had the same job -- though in different schools -- before retiring the same year.
But at the age of 68, the Mulgray twins, who have never been apart for longer than two weeks, created a minor piece of history yesterday when their first novel went on sale in bookshops across Britain.
No Suspicious Circumstances, a crime novel set in Edinburgh and featuring an intrepid female investigator from HM Revenue & Customs, is believed to be the first novel published in English by identical twins. The authors, from Joppa, outside Edinburgh, are described on the cover simply as "The Mulgray Twins."
Started more than 14 years ago, it is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking writing and rewriting. Each of its 86,000 words was a joint endeavour.
"We have both spent 31 years as English teachers so have always loved writing," said Morna yesterday. Helen added: "We used to do it in the holidays, but back then it was just a hobby. When we retired we had the time to do it seriously."
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