As gripping as Room as powerful as Elizabeth is Missing Beside Myself is the story of twin sisters a childhood game with devastating consequences & the slippery nature of identity Helen & Ellie are identical twins
- like two peas in a pod everyone says The girls know this isn't true though Helen is the leader & Ellie the follower Until they decide to swap places just for fun & just for one day But Ellie refuses to swap back & so begins a nightmare from which Helen cannot wake up Her toys her clothes her friends her glowing record at school the favour of her mother & the future she had dreamed of are all gone to a sister who blossoms in the approval that used to belong to Helen & as the years pass she loses not only her memory of that day but also herself
- until eventually only Smudge' is left Twenty-five years later Smudge receives a call from out of the blue It threatens to pull her back into her sister's dangerous orbit but if this is her only chance to face the past how can she resist? Beside Myself is a compulsive & darkly brilliant psychological drama about family & identity
- what makes us who we are & how very fragile it can be