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Bufflehead Sisters follows the lives of two girls from childhood through to adulthood. The story is told through the eyes of Janet, a girl desperate for a sister. Along comes Sophie, totally unlike Janet in every way and from a damaged family background. A friendship is formed that seems unbreakable.

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Bufflehead Sisters by Patricia J. Delois, pp 300, £6.49

The love the two girls have for each other is put under strain as Janet remains chaste and Sophie goes off the rails with a voracious sexual appetite and experimentation with drugs. Janet's family, in particular her mother, shun Sophie, and try to break their friendship. But it’s Sophie's betrayal of all that Janet holds dear which threatens to destroy the girls' relationship.

This novel has everything: love, lust, envy, anger, passion, resentment, forgiveness and compassion. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this book since I finished it – and I can’t wait for the sequel, Penguins in Amsterdam, to be published.