Barbara Trapido — Juggling
Penguin Books Ltd 1995 Paperback, 320pp. Sparky Christina and her gifted adopted sister Pam, forceful, motherless Jago and strangely weightless Peter, coincide to embark on a dazzling series of pairings and partings, outrageous coincidences and eleventh-hour entrances. As Christina analyses the wit, cruelty and crossed genders of Shakespearean comedy, their own lives are also entering the last act. Along with a lost twin, an unfrocked priest, Christina's best friend and her mother Alice's ex-fiance, they take the final curtain in some gloriously unexpected partnerships. (ISBN: 9780140236040). Good.