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Sally and Caitlin
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 3 2025
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
Three teenage girls from different backgrounds find themselves and partners.
Well-heeled golden girl Sally becomes a speech-writer for elite politicians. More complicated Caitlin, initially a geographer, becomes an actress and writer for the stage.
Rachel, while waitressing in Italy, hooks up with an art expert twenty years her senior, who prepares her for a career in art history and teaches her how to live life.
The path to suitable partners is anything but smooth. Sally finds Julien, a mixed-race maths genius, but has to wait while he frees himself. On a theatre tour of North and South America, Caitlin has a tumultuous affair with exotic Leandro, Romeo to her Juliet. Meeting up again in post-tour productions, they realise it was more than just a fling, and now face the painful task of extricating themselves from long-term partners. Their different methods and time scales cause immense and nearly fatal resentment.
Sally's self-effacing brother Henry finally realises that he and Rachel share a destiny. Caitlin's brother Ed finds himself a delightful marketing assistant of Indian heritage, but the strife between the Capujabis and Ed's family (the Montagues!) continues the on-going Romeo and Juliet theme.
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