Solitamente se un libro mi crea così tanta fatica lo abbandono, ma volevo davvero conoscere tutta la storia delle gemelle Gibbons perchè, appunto, di per sé è interessante.

de Angelis, April (28 June 2007). "April de Angelis on troubled twins Jennifer and June Gibbons". The Guardian. London: GMG. ISSN 0261-3077. OCLC 60623878 . Retrieved 19 July 2013. Shortly after I first began working at the British Library, I knew that I’d use my newfound access to 150 million media objects—magazine articles, oral history recordings and books, many of them rare—to get my hands on The Pepsi-Cola Addict, the sole novel by June Allison Gibbons, one half of the infamous “silent twins.” Connoisseurs of weird crime stories—or weird twin stories, for that matter, or the surprisingly rich subgenre of weird twin crime stories—can do no better than the bizarre, tragic yarn of the Gibbons twins. The Identical Twin Sisters Who Retreated Into Their Own World". The New Yorker. 27 November 2000 . Retrieved 22 October 2021. The astounding true story behind the major new motion picture starring Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance, with a new epilogue from the author WALLACE: This is June. (Reading) Nobody suffers the way I do, not with a sister; with a husband, yes; with a wife, yes; with a child, yes, but this sister of mine, a dark shadow robbing me of sunlight, is my one and only torment.

The Silent Twins tells the remarkable true story of twins June and Jennifer Gibbons (Picture: Lukasz Bak/Focus Features) But i think that was one of the happiest days i ever had… those don’t come by too often.’ ‘It was always like July 4th in those days.’” Bennetto, Jason (12 March 1993). "Inquiry into death of 'silent twin' ". The Independent . Retrieved 9 April 2020. Jennifer's cheekbones were very thin and her face looked very flushed. She looked, I think, quite afraid. June looked determined. I was very disturbed at the end of this visit.

When the literary world ignored them, the twins began to dabble in routine teenage rebellion—promiscuity, shoplifting, drinking and huffing glue—but eventually graduated to breaking and entering. “Why do this?” June wrote in her diary. “Nothing else to do. No friend. Nothing to fill in the cold hour.” For five weeks in late 1981, the girls went on a breaking and entering spree, culminating in their attempt to set fire to a building on a local technical college campus. They were caught and remanded to infamous psychiatric hospital Broadmoor for an indefinite period of time, the draconian sentence justified by their array of undecipherable psychiatric symptoms more than their crimes, which were basically victim-less. They stayed in Broadmoor for over a decade. This is a poem June wrote in 1983 while she was at Broadmoor Asylum, in the full grip of hopelessness and despair, and under the influence of psychotropic drugs prescribed to ensure her compliance: Initially all appeared to be normal with the young twins, but they were soon to withdraw from the outside world, rejecting verbal communication and speaking to each other only through their own private cryptophasia or secret language. Viewed with suspicion by their school authorities the pair were eventually sent to a special needs school. We got twelve years of hell, because we didn’t speak. We had to work hard to get out. We went to the doctor. We said, ‘Look, they wanted us to talk, we’re talking now.’ He said, ‘You’re not getting out. You’re going to be here for thirty years.’ We lost hope, really.” Lyrics include: ‘For you my sister, holding onto me forever / Disco dancing with the rapists, your only crime is silence,’ in reference to their Broadmoor sentence.Marjorie Wallace with the Gibbons twins during a visit to Broadmoor in 1993. PA Images via Getty Images To her surprise, she forged a friendship with them by telling them their parents had let her read their notebooks. They broke their silence to ask if she liked their writings and told her they dreamed of becoming writers. But the things they had written, she found, included furious screeds about their own relationship. Wallace shared one excerpt from Jennifer with NPR: Weekend Box Office Results: Five Nights at Freddy’s Scores Monster Opening Link to Weekend Box Office Results: Five Nights at Freddy’s Scores Monster Opening WALLACE: One doctor was giving them a vaccination, and he noticed that neither of them spoke. They both moved in sort of synchronicity. This is the extraordinary story of June and Jennifer Gibbons, identical twins born in the UK in 1963 to parents of Barbadian heritage. Their lives captivated the nation and were the inspiration behind the lyrics of Tsunami by the Manic Street Preachers.

If they were born in this time, they would be New York Times best-selling authors and prodigies,” Wright said. he stopped trying to restrain his tears, and stared out at the sea which whispered his sadness with him." According to Wallace’s book, Jennifer once tried to strangle June with the cord of a radio, while June once tried to drown Jennifer after they rivaled for the attention of some boys. Me and you got the same feelings, nobody gonna tell us to cry for the moon, when we want to cry for the sun." Finally, the twins were eligible for transfer to a different hospital, one that would allow them to be eligible for parole. Before they left, they met with Wallace. Jennifer told her, “Marjorie, I’m going to have to die.” The journalist nervously laughed this off, but the twin insisted, telling her the two of them had made the decision together.Experts separated the twins to see if they could develop independent identities. However, the experiment failed: rather than branch out, June and Jennifer became isolated and seemed to give up on the will to live. Tamara Lawrance stars as Jennifer Gibbons and Letitia Wright stars as June Gibbons in director Agnieszka Smoczynska's The Silent Twins. June: "All through my schooldays I often thought and confessed I was a boy. I got strange feeling I was a boy under all my female assets. It’s as though I’d been a boy first in my life."