The mannequin makers

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.

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

Places: New Zealand