You can grow up, live in one place all your life, has your friends and family around you, a twin. Yet you don't feel as if you belong in that place, among your friends and family. You feel as if you are displaced and out of bounds.
So Augusta Hope delves in to the world of words and definitions. She leans their meanings and their nouns, their verbs and everything that came with said word. When she is young, she picks her favorite country and sticks by it, learns everything that there is to know about it.
When it comes to believing in things, not everyone is supportive, Augusta fights her own fight, her own battles with her words and her family and friends. Always compared to her twin sister Julia, it's hard to find your own place in the world when everyone thinks of your sister as perfection.
We follow Augusta's story through growing up in a small place, of knowing everyone in your street and the things that she likes, while intermixed we start finding out about the story and life of another character.
We learn their truths and their hearts, their hurts and their feelings all mixed together as we follow the paths that they both lead in life and the heartache that their lives bring.
Woven together in a beautiful tale, The Other half of Augusta Hope is a loving book that could change your whole view on how your own life is. Of how two peoples worlds could be merging from a very early stage in their lives, of how they both dream of the same things, read the same poems and hope.
Each page is filled with information, which draws you further in to the story line, drags you deep down and makes you feel like you are standing right along side each character, feeling their hope and joy and pain and happiness.
It's the story of the year and a book that everyone should pick up and read, because it is beautiful.
So Augusta Hope delves in to the world of words and definitions. She leans their meanings and their nouns, their verbs and everything that came with said word. When she is young, she picks her favorite country and sticks by it, learns everything that there is to know about it.
When it comes to believing in things, not everyone is supportive, Augusta fights her own fight, her own battles with her words and her family and friends. Always compared to her twin sister Julia, it's hard to find your own place in the world when everyone thinks of your sister as perfection.
We follow Augusta's story through growing up in a small place, of knowing everyone in your street and the things that she likes, while intermixed we start finding out about the story and life of another character.
We learn their truths and their hearts, their hurts and their feelings all mixed together as we follow the paths that they both lead in life and the heartache that their lives bring.
Woven together in a beautiful tale, The Other half of Augusta Hope is a loving book that could change your whole view on how your own life is. Of how two peoples worlds could be merging from a very early stage in their lives, of how they both dream of the same things, read the same poems and hope.
Each page is filled with information, which draws you further in to the story line, drags you deep down and makes you feel like you are standing right along side each character, feeling their hope and joy and pain and happiness.
It's the story of the year and a book that everyone should pick up and read, because it is beautiful.