To look at one was to see the other. For family even the girls own father itwas a constant guessing game. For strangers the surprise was overwhelming. Andfor th... » 

To look at one was to see the other. For family even the girls own father itwas a constant guessing game. For strangers the surprise was overwhelming. Andfor the twins Olivia and Victoria Henderson two remarkable young women comingof age at the turn of the century their bond was mysterious marvelous andoften playfula secret realm only they inhabited.Olivia and Victoria were the beloved daughters of a man who never fullyrecovered from his wifes death bearing them in 1893. Shy serious Olivia borneleven minutes before her sister had taken over the role of mother in theirlush New York estate managing not only a household but her rebellious twinsflights of fancy. Freespirited Victoria wanted to change the world. Sheembraced the womens suffrage movement and dreamed of sailing to wartornEurope. Then in the girls twentyfirst year as the first world war escalatedoverseas a fateful choice changed their lives forever.It began when Victorias life was about to become a public scandal. It led to apainful decision and brought handsome lawyer Charles Dawson into theHendersons life and family. Handpicked by the twins father to save hisdaughters reputation Charles was still mourning his wifes death aboard theTitanic struggling to raise his nine yearold son alone determined never tolose his heart again. Charles wanted to believe that for the sake of his sonhe could make an unwanted marriage work. But in an act of deception that onlyOlivia and Victoria could manage the twins took an irrevocable step whichchanged both their lives forever and took one of the twins to the battlefieldsof France the other into a marriage she longed for butcould not have.From Manhattan society to the trenches of warravaged France Mirror Imagemoves elegantly and dramatically through a rich and troubled era. Withstartling insight Danielle Steel explores womens choices between home andadventure between the love for «