A Spanish Lover

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Lizzie and Frances are twins - nearly identical tall fair unmistakably English - but their resemblance goes no deeper. Simply put Lizzie is the sister who's always gotten everything right - husband children her own thriving business marvelous friends - while Frances has not. People are beginning to worry about what Frances is going to do with her life now that the twins are approaching forty. But after a lifetime of not measuring up Frances decides to start playing by different rules. She shocks her family by taking a married lover a Spanish Catholic who clearly will never leave his wife and much to everyone's surprise Lizzie's perfect life begins to crumble from the stress of it all - and from envy. A Spanish Lover combines an intoxicating love story unfolding under the Mediterranean sun with a sobering view of Britain's current economic stranglehold on a family that never dreamed that money would be a problem. It is a richly intriguing study of twins of motherhood and marriage or choosing not to marry of painful domestic downsizing and of late flowering with a vengeance.