{"id":56177,"date":"2018-04-10T02:42:33","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T02:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56177"},"modified":"2018-04-10T02:42:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T02:42:33","slug":"26a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56177","title":{"rendered":"26a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/1036695\/26a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>26a<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.co.uk\/publishers\/vintage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vintage<\/a><br \/>\n2006-03-02<br \/>\n240 Pages<br \/>\n129mm x 198mm x 15mm<br \/>\n170g<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9780099479048<br \/>\neBook ISBN: 9781409079620<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diana-evans.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Diana Evans<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/1036695\/26a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/content\/dam\/catalogue\/pim\/editions\/442\/9780099479048\/cover.jpg.rendition.460.707.png\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Winner of the Orange Award for New Writers<\/li>\n<li>Winner of the deciBel Writer of the Year Award<\/li>\n<li>Shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award<\/li>\n<li>Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award<\/li>\n<li>Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Best First Book Award<\/li>\n<li>Shortlisted for the Times\/Southbank Show Breakthrough Award<\/li>\n<li>Recipient of a Betty Trask Award<\/li>\n<li>Longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Identical twins, Georgia and Bessi, live in the loft of 26 Waifer Avenue. It is a place of beanbags, nectarines and secrets, and visitors must always knock before entering. Down below there is not such harmony. Their Nigerian mother puts <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cayenne_pepper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cayenne pepper<\/a> on her <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yorkshire_pudding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yorkshire pudding<\/a> and has mysterious ways of dealing with homesickness; their father angrily roams the streets of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neasden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neasden<\/a>, prey to the demons of his <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Derbyshire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Derbyshire<\/a> upbringing. Forced to create their own identities, the Hunter children build a separate universe. Older sister Bel discovers sex, high heels and organic hairdressing, the twins prepare for a flapjack empire, and baby sister Kemy learns to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moonwalk_(dance)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">moonwalk<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Jackson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Jackson<\/a>. It is when the reality comes knocking that the fantasies of childhood start to give way. How will Georgia and Bessi cope in a world of separateness and solitude, and which of them will be stronger?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identical twins, Georgia and Bessi, live in the loft of 26 Waifer Avenue. It is a place of beanbags, nectarines and secrets, and visitors must always knock before entering. Down below there is not such harmony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15,10],"tags":[2632,81,850,2132],"class_list":["post-56177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-uk","tag-diana-evans","tag-england","tag-london","tag-vintage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56178,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56177\/revisions\/56178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}