Beside Myself is one of those books that if you see it among many, it doesn’t speak to you. But a little it intrigues you, certainly thanks to the cover that it’s a little ‘creepy’ or undoubtedly for the high-sounding title: it has a totally disturbing thing. And in fact this book is deeply disturbing because it drags you with it, page after page, into a story made of revenge, disbelief but also a lot of loneliness. That’s the very strong point of Ann Morgan’s book. Usually twins are painted as souls living in symbiosis, eternally linked, sometimes even in appearance, but above all in personality. In ‘Beside Myself’ the twin sisters protagonists are both aesthetically identical and temperamentally opposed. One is the praise and pride of parents, the other is their disappointment. And this diad of opposition is continually remarked in the book until something as unpredictable as it is chilling happens. It is a reading that deserves and can be read all in one breath!
About the author
Ann Morgan is a British author and journalist known for her book “Reading the World: Confessions of a Literary Explorer,” in which she documents her year-long journey to read a book from every country in the world. In 2016 she published with Bloomsbury the successful psychological novel “Beside Myself.”
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