Title: A rather ordinary book about extraordinary events.
Product review: The twins of the title become orphans, are separated, and one grows up Dutch, the other remains German. They have some abortive contacts, and finally meet, by coincidence, as old women taking the baths in SPA, Belgium. Most of the book consists of their account of their lives, with their lives post WWII treated cursorily (well the German goes a few years past the War). The salient point is that the Dutch woman cannot forgive the German for being a German. She does at the end, but the whole account of their interaction in SPA is very weak. De Loo has definite narrative skill, so the book is readable. What I found particularly strange, is that the author seems to go out of her way to make the discovery of the two earlier visits between the two twins surprises to the reader, for no apparent reason, and to the detriment of the integrity of the story.
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