![]() ![]() Still, the knowledge she holds over her half-sister electrifies the novel’s second half, which is narrated by Chaurisse, still unaware of her father’s double life. ![]() “We didn’t do damage to anyone but ourselves,” she explains. The extent to which that has warped her is palpable as Dana recalls all the times her mum, Gwen, has taken her to spy on – Gwen prefers “surveil” – James’s public family. But while Chaurisse grows up in a house in a nice part of town, and Dana and her mother live in an apartment in an altogether more rackety neighbourhood, Dana has the edge on her coddled sister in at least one respect: she’s grown up knowing about Chaurisse, whereas James has never confessed his affair to Chaurisse’s mother. By the time he met Dana’s mother, James had already been married for a decade, and Chaurisse came along when Dana was just four months old. A tale of two halves, Silver Sparrow is split – equally, unlike James himself – between his 14-year-old daughters: Dana, for whom he’s a fleeting weekly visitor, and his legitimate offspring, Chaurisse, who sees him simply as “daddy”. ![]()
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