This beautifully constructed novel about two very different sisters regrettably slipped under the radar last December. Julia Glass won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2002 and I See You Everywhere was praised by The New York Times Book Review as ‘rich, intricate and alive with emotion’.

Elder sister Louisa, conscientious and careful, lives in New York and works as an artist and an editor. She is as precise with words as she is with her life. Clem is the reckless, restless ‘wild one’; their mother’s favourite. She effortlessly attracts men – to her sister’s envy – and is most comfortable in the wilderness areas where she lives and works.

This is an archetypal story of the bond between siblings – love and hate, understanding and bewilderment, communion and estrangement. As we move through 25 years in the sisters’ lives, alternating between narrators, we watch their lives and relationships drift and evolve. I was hooked from the first sentences (Clem’s): ‘I avoid reunions. I’m not a rebel, a recluse, or a sociopath, and I’m too young to qualify as a crank …’ A real literary treat.