NEW RELEASE
Beautiful Creatures - Lulu Taylor (2011)
Identical twins Octavia and Flora Beaufort have been hidden away for years. On their 21st birthday, their aunt Frances - who raised them after their dad was killed in a plane crash and their mother ran off - announces that they are now allowed to have their inheritance and join the world. Octavia, excited to leave home and learn about all the things she has not been allowed to experience, starts buying everything she sees. But Flora does not enjoy the free rein they have just been given - nor basks in the limelight as an heiress. When she is almost attacked walking home one day, she is saved by Otto, a man she believes is looking out for her best interests. She decides to marry him and leave with him to his home in Germany. Octavia, still in her whirlwind high society world of shopping, fashion and men, starts to miss her sister and suspects something is not right. With these two girls having been brought up so sheltered, do they have the strength to deal with the shadiness that money and fame brings? And when they need each other the most, will they be there for each other? With all the elements of mystery, love, sex and money, Lulu Taylor has an uncanny way of making the reader feel like they are in the story. A hard-to-put-down book - her best yet! (CG)
Lulu Taylor is back with her third novel, Beautiful Creatures, which focuses on twin sisters dealing with the legacy of a strange upbringing. The summary says: "Few have ever seen the Bettancourt twins. Brought up in strict seclusion on their family's lavish estate, their past shrouded in secrecy, the girls have been virtual prisoners in their own home. But the night before their 21st birthday, at a lavish party held in the gardens of their home, the world is finally introduced to Flora and Octavia. On this momentous day the twins are finally free of their aunt and uncle's stifling and sinister care, and come into possession of a huge fortune. Nearly two years later and for the first time in their lives, the girls are living apart. Flora has fallen into a marriage that brings her nothing but heartache. Octavia and her extravagant boyfriend travel the world attending an endless procession of parties. But underneath her reckless exterior, Octavia knows there must be more to life and both sisters struggle with the legacy of their strange childhood. Life suddenly becomes a terrifying struggle that the sisters are ill-equipped to deal with. Before they can truly earn the freedom they crave, they need to recapture the closeness of their childhood and learn to fight together."