Double Take
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The illustration on our cover is taken from One World by Michael Foreman, published by Andersen Press, (0 86264 289 2, £6.95). We are grateful to Andersen Press for their help in using this illustration and to Michael Foreman for the article.
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This uses devices not usually found in teenage novels and forces the reader to turn detective and follow not only plot, but technique and ideas. Olivia, an unemployed actress, briefly acts as a double in a television reconstruction of a girl's disappearance. This simple action becomes a focus for a series of events and ideas based on doubles: the relation of actor to character, fiction to reality, stereotype to truth, and finally the relation of men to women. A book which will act as a satisfying bridge to a range of demanding adult novels.
