Just as this baby smiles
at the baby who always
smiles at her, the one in
her mother’s arms, the mother
who looks like me, who
smiles at herself in her
mother’s mirror, the friendly
mirror in her mother’s house.
But if I move to one side
we vanish, the woman I thought
was me, the baby making friends
with herself, we move to one side
and the mirror holds no future, no past,
in its liquid frame, only the corner
of an open window, a bee visiting
the ready flowers of summer.
Maura Dooley
Contents
Copyright
Praise for A Double Life
Dedication
Epigraph
Prologue
Chapter 1: Gabriela
Chapter 2: Gabriela
Chapter 3: Isobel
Chapter 4: Gabriela
Chapter 5: Gabriela
Chapter 6: Isobel
Chapter 7: Gabriela
Chapter 8: Gabriela
Chapter 9: Gabriela
Chapter 10: Isobel
Chapter 11: Gabriela
Chapter 12: Isobel
Chapter 13: Gabriela
Chapter 14: Gabriela
Chapter 15: Gabriela
Chapter 16: Isobel
Chapter 17: Gabriela
Chapter 18: Isobel
Chapter 19: Gabriela
Chapter 20: Gabriela
Chapter 21: Isobel
Chapter 22: Gabriela
Chapter 23: Isobel
Chapter 24: Gabriela
Chapter 25: Isobel
Chapter 26: Gabriela
Chapter 27: Gabriela
Chapter 28: Gabriela
Chapter 29: Isobel
Chapter 30: Gabriela
Chapter 31: Gabriela
Chapter 32: Gabriela
Chapter 33: Isobel
Chapter 34: Gabriela
Chapter 35: Isobel
Chapter 36: Gabriela
Chapter 37: Gabriela
Chapter 38: Isobel
Chapter 39: Gabriela
Chapter 40: Isobel
Chapter 41: Gabriela
Chapter 42: Isobel
Chapter 43: Gabriela
Chapter 44: Isobel
Chapter 45: Gabriela
Chapter 46: Isobel
Chapter 47: Gabriela
Chapter 48: Gabriela
Chapter 49: Isobel
Chapter 50: Gabriela
Chapter 51: Gabriela
Chapter 52: Isobel
Chapter 53: Gabriela
Chapter 54: Gabriela
Chapter 55: Isobel
Chapter 56: Gabriela
Chapter 57: Gabriela
Chapter 58: Isobel
Chapter 59: Gabriela
Chapter 60: Gabriela
Chapter 61: Isobel
Chapter 62: Gabriela
Chapter 63: Gabriela
Chapter 64: Isobel
Chapter 65: Gabriela
