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    The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep
    The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep
    The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep
    Audiobook14 hours

    The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep

    Written by Juliet Butler

    Narrated by Juliet Butler

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    About this audiobook

    ‘Do yourself a favour and read this wonderful book’ Scotsman

    Based on the true story of conjoined Russian twins, Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, The Less You Know the Sounder You Sleep is a tale of survival and self-determination, innocence and lies.

    No one expects Dasha and Masha to live beyond childhood. Not the Soviet scientists who study them, the other ‘defective’ children who bully them, or the ‘healthies’ from whom the twins must be locked away.

    But they don’t know Masha like her sister does. While Dasha is gentle and quiet and fears everything, her twin is fearless and irrepressible and determined they will survive. Whatever the cost.

    Through the seismic shifts of Stalin’s communism to the beginnings of Putin’s democracy, the sisters strive to be more than just ‘the together twins’, finding hope – and love – in the unlikeliest of places.

    But strength can come in many different forms and if Dasha is to live more than half a life she must find the courage to emerge from her sister’s shadow.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateAug 10, 2017
    ISBN9780008203788
    The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep

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      The life story - more of a biography than a novel really- of conjoined Russian twins, Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova. Whisked away shortly after birth (the mother told they had died) they were a fascinating subject for Soviet medicine and spent their first six years in a grim institute as human lab rats. Moved on to a disabled hospital, they begin to see how 'normal' Russians are traumatized at the sight of them; rare trips to the outside world must be taken in secret, so as not to offend the 'Healthies'After a comparatively happy few years in school, where they do well in their studies- and where Dasha finds her one and only romance- hopes for the future are cut short when the medical board discount their success and sentence them to an institution for rest of their lives.And thus the twins spend decades in a grim, jail-like home, where nothing is their own and any disobedience may end in punishment....There are a few friends along the way; but the main focus is the two very different personalities of the girls- fiercem violent, dominant Masha and the much more docile, academic and romantic Dasha. What must it be like when your desires to go somewhere, meet someone are rejected by your literal other half? When you getting drunk impacts physically on her? When the knowledge that the death of one of you will soon cause that of the other?A very sobering read- the author spent much time with them, so this is based on interviews and official documentation. Makes you realise how the world has changed when it comes to treating the disabled as human beings.