The Silent Twins: Now a major motion picture starring Letitia Wright

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This was a sad, disturbing, painful and upsetting book! About power. About injustice. You may not want to read it for entertainment, but if you are a parent, a psychologist, a doctor, a patient, a twin, a criminal, a politician or anyone in the justice system you can learn from it. Tamara Lawrance stars as Jennifer Gibbons and Letitia Wright stars as June Gibbons in director Agnieszka Smoczynska's The Silent Twins. Their behaviour took another unexpected turn in October 1981, when they embarked on a five-week spree committing vandalism, burglary, and arson. However, Jennifer became incredibly weak on arrival at the clinic and was taken to the Princess of Wales Hospital. The pair were the subject of the 1986 television drama The Silent Twins, broadcast on BBC2 as part of its Screen Two series, [21] and an Inside Story documentary Silent Twin – Without My Shadow, which aired on BBC1 in September 1994. [22] A play based on Wallace's book, titled Speechless, debuted in London in 2011. [13]

When he's at the juvenile detention centre, Preston's mother visits him. She asks him how he's doing, and he says, "It's pretty noisy.....the place is like a prison camp." Excellent observational skills. SMITH: And finally, the doctors at Broadmoor announced they were transferring the twin to Caswell Clinic. And maybe, after about a year in Caswell, the twins could be released and rejoin the outside world. Marjorie decided to make one last visit to the twins in Broadmoor before their transfer. The Identical Twin Sisters Who Retreated Into Their Own World". The New Yorker. 27 November 2000 . Retrieved 22 October 2021.The girls dropped out of school in their mid-teens, registered for unemployment, and retired into their room. The family could hear them talk and type but hardly ever saw the pair. Jennifer and June wrote books and novels and meticulously chronicled their lives in diaries. They rarely stayed at one school for long, so the only constant was each other. Anne Treherne, a psychologist who examined the twins, opined that Jennifer controlled June using eye signals. Yet, she couldn’t explain the perfect synchrony of the twins’ actions. Bennetto, Jason (12 March 1993). "Inquiry into death of 'silent twin' ". The Independent . Retrieved 9 April 2020. THE SILENT TWINS is the astounding true story of twin sisters who only communicated with one another. As a result, they created a rich, fascinating world to escape the reality of their own lives. Based on the best-selling book The Silent Twins, the film stars Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance. Kellam, Alexander M.P. (October 1993). "The silent twins" (PDF). Psychiatric Bulletin. 17 (10): 622–623. doi: 10.1192/pb.17.10.622.

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. 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. June and Jennifer were the daughters of Caribbean immigrants Gloria and Aubrey Gibbons. The Gibbons family moved from Barbados to the United Kingdom in the early 1960s, as part of the Windrush generation. [3] Gloria was a housewife and Aubrey worked as a technician for the Royal Air Force. [4] The couple also had three other children: Greta was born in 1957, David was born in 1959, and Rosie was born in 1967. [5] Identical twins June and Jennifer were from Barbados and moved to the UK during the Windrush generation with their parents Gloria and Aubrey Gibbons. One of the best parts of reading the book, though, is listening to Gibbons try to mimic American jive (it’s unclear exactly when the story is supposed to take place, although the bus full of “beatniks” that passes through early on suggests the 60s or 70s.) When Preston’s friend Ryan wants to ask what’s wrong, he instead queries, “Hey what fazes you?” Later on, someone chides, “Listen, don’t get nifty with me.” But my all-time favorite has to be when Peggy sarcastically tosses a compliment at Preston: “Maybe you’re the best thing since blueberry muffins,” she says.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: Wallace, one of the only people June and Jennifer would talk to, ended up reporting extensively on the behavior that allegedly spooked the Broadmoor staff. The twins would alternate which one of them would eat food while the other one went hungry. For a time they were separated, and staff would discover that both girls, though kept in cells far apart from one another, were motionless, frozen in the exact same position.