somehow complicated. One is three years older than the other, they play their

roles perfectly between sister and sister. When they were young, the younger one

almost obeyed whatever the older said with no objection:

"and she knelt down and puts her arms round me, mouthing over my head to our father, 'Neen wanted it to be a girl.' I'd wanted nothing, but I hid my face in Isabel's shirt...."

As child, they seem to fit in the game "mother- daughter": "this time I lay passive, staring up at her while she patted me to sleep, the way we patted our dolls." (Dunmore_61). Such relationship can be reflected not just in the past, but in what they acknowledge in the present as well. Yesterday they shared so many memories together: the beach, the picnic, even the curiosity about their Mom's giving birth to the little brother, Colin: " What's it like, having the baby ? I asked Isabel, and she wrinkled her nose, remembering. Noisy, she said at last." ( Dunmore_ 58).Yet today they also share their knowledge for each other which is a secret nobody knows, but them. What is the message the author want to te

" My hands shook......I had a pain in my throat.....I was clutching my towel tightly round me......Then I went straight into the kitchen, cut a thick crust of a fresh white loaf, smeared it with butter.....and ate it fast.....There was sweat on my forehead......kept on eating. I was not going to let myself think of the things Richard has said, not yet." (Dunmore_12.13)

Helen Dunmore is so successful with the way she uses the language, the tone and the description. I love the way Nina tells me about her cooking, that is a passion! However, I do not like her talking about the dreams, those that Nina has while she stays in Isabel's house. Such dreams may leave a confusing about the character Nina. Besides that, the story is really a successful work of Helen Dunmore: particular language, strong tone, characterization with specific characters; the novel really persuades readers about the love of the two sisters.

Some might say that Nina is an antagonist character because of her reaction is somewhat against to her sister; that she is responded for the death of Isabel. The tragedy will not happen if she had not come over to look after her sister. Let's look at the story in this way: It is difficult to say completely that the relationship between the two sisters is just sister and sister. That always means something else. In childhood, they almost spent all the time together, rarely to see them played separately. They always had each other in any game even the existence of the little brother did not bother them at all. For years, the game no longer belongs to the past. Nevertheless, the game now is a part of their life, even though they grew up and have a different life: In the game, each sister plays her role perfectly as if they used to do before: Isabel is older one so that she takes care her young sister; Nina is younger so that she needs to obey what her sister says. Also Nina keeps thinking Isabel is hers; that Isabel would love her as much as she would not have anyone else to love rather than her: "...She loved me so much, I always knew that. I always knew that Isabel loved me even more than my mother did."(Dunmore_148) The climax is made when the jealousy is blown out by the kiss Richard gave to Nina, not the death of Isabel at the final. Such an event happens in anywhere in life. The conflict comes to the highest level with the beginning of the affair between Richard and Nina.Then breaks down, finishes with the death of Isabel.

They are sisters, they are best friends, Isabel and Nina altogether they shared a great of memories in childhood. Since the death of their little brother, Colin, they seem to be closer than ever. Grown up, Nina lives in London and works as a photographer; beautiful Isabel is married to Richard, a successful economist and settles her life at a small town in country. As Isabel has a first child, Nina comes to look after her sister. The reunion of the two sisters does awake their childhood, which was believed it had already gone; and the link between their dead baby brother with Isabel's baby points out the hiding truth which stays beyond Nina's expectation. Who killed the baby? Nina? Isabel? The questions still wait for the answers. Mean while, Nina has an affair with Richard. Later on, Isabel notices the relationship between her husband and her sister, she kills herself and leaves the baby for her husband and Nina.

In the way she prepare the dinner for everybody in Isabel's

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Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)