Stuck at home with a husband she despises, Megan must come up with a way to make sure nobody realises what she’s done. How hard can it be? At first, Megan relishes slipping into her sister’s expensive, glamorous shoes, but then lockdown hits and suddenly juggling two lives isn’t quite so easy.
The only way Megan can get away with killing her twin is to become her. Incensed by her sister’s disregard for her marriage, Megan confronts Leah – an argument that turns to murder. Leah already has everything – fame, fortune, freedom – and now she’s taken the one thing that Megan thought was hers and hers alone. But when she discovers photographs of her estranged twin sister on her husband’s phone, she begins to suspect that not only has her husband been having an affair with the worst person possible, but it’s more than likely he’s been conspiring to make Megan think that she’s going mad too. She’s forgetting things on a regular basis, something her husband Chris is all too willing to keep reminding her, and she’s terrified that she’s inherited the same affliction that her mother has.
Megan’s twin is an awful person – something that can also be said for a lot of the characters in this psychological thriller, which is precisely what makes it so tense and unpredictable. The hatred that protagonist Megan feels for her sister is so palpable that within the opening two chapters she’s successfully managed to make readers feel that same level of loathing. Yet, that’s exactly what happens with Leah Patterson, the titular ‘perfect twin’ in Sarah Bonner’s debut novel.
It’s not often that you truly despise a character in a book that you never really meet.
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