Alex Hyde is a lecturer at University College London.
Violets, her first novel, is a fictional reimagining of her father’s story, drawing on family mythology and his personal archives. She lives with her family in South London.
At the Guardian Hyde tagged ten top fictional mirrored lives, including:
The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyRead about the other entries on the list.
Twins are an irresistible vehicle for mirrored lives, embodying sameness and difference at once. Rahel and Estha, the “two-egg twins” at the centre of Roy’s family drama,are separated by the cruelties of social systems. Flipping back and forth between the tragic events that shape the twins’ childhoods and their reunion as adults, their bond becomes the culmination of all the bonds broken before.
The God of Small Things is among Saumya Roy's seven unlikely love stories in literature and Miranda Doyle's top ten books about lies.
--Marshal Zeringue
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