A review by chrissyml
A Tale of Two Sisters by Anna Maxted

4.0

How easy it would have been for Anna Maxted to have created two sisters that were stereotypical opposites. While one sister in this novel is a high-achieving career girl and the other is a more free-spirited journalist, I found the characters to be nicely three-dimensional, even the men (who are normally pretty flat in chick lit). The relationship between the sisters is complicated and becomes increasingly so during the progression of the novel, but is very believable. Anna Maxted tends to deal with heavier subjet matter than most chick lit authors, incorporating themes like death of a parent or date rape. This novel deals with miscarriage and unexpected pregnancy, and handles it in a very delicate way. Unlike most books about sisters, there is no "good sister" or "bad sister" here, which is the way it normally happens in real life.