![]() So just what is it about the Wakefield twins that keeps readers coming back? The Sweet Valley stories make no literary claims whatsoever: the storylines are, often, ridiculous, the characters impossibly beautiful (and I write this as one of the engrossed 1980s teenagers). ![]() ![]() Pascal herself wrote a sequel, Sweet Valley Confidential, featuring the twins 10 years later, in 2011, and she's just launching a new series of ebook novellas, The Sweet Life, jammed with scandal, sex and romance: Jessica, the naughty twin, has a baby! Elizabeth is going out with Bruce Patman! It spawned a host of spin-offs featuring the twins at, variously, university and junior high, and Elizabeth and Jessica's story is also set to be adapted into a film, with Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody attached. The wildly popular series, created by Francine Pascal and written by a team of ghostwriters, ran to more than 100 novels. I f you were a teenage girl in the 1980s there's a good chance that you spent large chunks of the decade engrossed in the adventures of Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield, the American twins with "shoulder-length blonde hair, blue-green eyes, and perfect California tans" who fell in and out of love with each other's boyfriends, gossiped behind each other's backs and Learned about Life at Sweet Valley High. ![]()
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