description: The attic room at 26a Waifer Avenue in the lower-middle-class London neighborhood of Neasden is a sanctuary for identical twins Georgia and Bessi Hunter. Here the girls share nectarines and forge their identities, well removed from their Nigerian mother, Ida, who, devastated by homesickness, speaks to the spirits of the family she left behind on another continent. But innocence lasts for only so long--and dreams cannot slow the relentless incursions of the real world. A terrible secret begins to threaten the twins' utopia, setting them on divergent paths toward heartrending resolutions in a world of separateness and solitude.
language: English
title: 26A
titlecomplete: 26A
genres: Drama, Family, Contemporary, Novels, Magical Realism, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Nigeria, British Literature, Coming Of Age
ratings_count: 1651
places: London, England
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Orange Prize
category: New Writers, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Guardian First Book Award
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Betty Trask Award
publisher: Sound Library