The mannequin makers

By Craig Cliff

Subjects: Twins -- Fiction, New Zealand fiction, Window dressers, Twins, Fiction, historical, New zealand, fiction, Window dressers -- Fiction, Interpersonal relations, City and town life -- New Zealand -- Fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, City and town life, Interpersonal relations -- Fiction

Description: Marumaru, New Zealand. Colton Kemp, a department store window-dresser, is at home, watching his beloved wife die in premature childbirth. Tormented by grief, he hatches a plan to make his name and thwart his rival, the silent and gifted Carpenter: over the next sixteen years he will raise his newborn twins in secrecy and isolation, to become human mannequins in the worlds most lifelike window display.