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How will Georgia and Bessi cope in the adult world, and which of them will be stronger?\u003cp\u003e Wickedly funny and devastatingly moving, \u003ci\u003e26a\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary first novel, a successor to Zadie Smith's \u003ci\u003eWhite Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e and Monica Ali's \u003ci\u003eBrick Lane\u003c\/i\u003e. 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It is their place, one of strawberry-scented beanbag chair, a view of the apple trees, and very important decisions, and all visitors must knock on the door marked 26a before entering. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDownstairs is a less harmonious world: Ida, the twins' Nigerian mother, puts cayenne pepper on Yorkshire pudding and can only assuage her bouts of desperate homesickness with five-hour baths and long conversations in Edo with her own absent mother; Aubrey, their Derbyshire-born father, shouts Haddock  in frustration with his house full of women, and angrily roams the streets of Neasden to escape his demons. Older sister Bel discovers sex, high heels, and organic hairdressing, and baby sister Kemy is obsessed with Michael Jackson. 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The one after sight, sound, smell, touch and taste where the world multiplied and exploded because it was the sum of two people. Bright was twice as bright. All the colours were extra. 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