Tessa de Loo

Dutch novelist Tessa de Loo was born at Bussum, Holland. She is the author of the bestselling novel The Twins, which sold over three million copies, and has now been made into the Oscar nominated film, Twin Sisters - the most widely-viewed film in Dutch cinema history. Her other prize-winning novels include A Bed In Heaven, Meander, Isabelle, The Smoke Sacrifice and The Miracle of the Dog; while A Pig in the Palace looks at Byron's travels in Albania.  The Twins was chosen as one of the Sunday Times '100 Best Books of the Year'.  Tessa de Loo now lives in Portugal.

''The moving tale of twins, separated at the age of six, who meet by chance as elderly women at a Belgian health resort and share their life stories. De Loo doesn't seek to exonerate Germany, but to tell the harrowing tale of war from two sides, to humanize history and to add some ambiguity to the good-evil dichotomy'' - Time Magazine, on The Twins.

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