LAURIE AND CLAIRE

They're not brother and sister, but children of artistic parents brought up together in the same house. The bond they form in childhood will hold them together throughout their lives. Reader Sian Thomas is superb. She touches delicately on foreign accents and regional dialects and suggests gender without artificially lowering her voice. The listener might weary of the rambling of the novel and its many anticlimactic moments, but Thomas is energetic and fresh from beginning to end. J.P. ©AudioFile, Portland, Maine [Published: MAR 97]