This is a fun, enjoyable, character-driven story, well written, and fairly compact. There is some lovely humour created by a misunderstanding whilst emailing, and again we are party to more of the email mix-up than the characters are. There is lovely dramatic irony as Katherine and James meet each other at a dinner party, with the reader aware of their connection, but the two of them blissfully unaware. The story progresses nicely, almost as a series of episodes, each with their own appropriate title which I liked, and it builds together as Katherine, James and Mark's lives all begin to intertwine. The story is narrated in the first-person in turn, primarily, by Katherine, Mark and James, giving us three different perspectives on events. Katherine receives her horoscope by email every day, but starts to notice that Mark seems to not quite be on form, or that something has changed, and decides to contact him after musing that `nothing seems to fit what's actually happening to me anymore.' Meanwhile, she finds herself volunteered to do a talk at the local Writing Circle, and her sister Cassie insists on trying to find her a new partner. He feels guilty easily, and is a bit of a worrier. James is having a new start on all fronts, with his return to astrology, and his relationship also having ended. Mark isn't really interested in fame or money, he just wants to do his job accurately and well, and he is very perceptive in his assessments of other people. Nothing, not even a woman, has ever come between my first passion and me.' Mark is handing over the task of writing the daily and weekly readings on his website to James, to lighten his own workload a little, as he is becoming increasingly well known, and his agent is hoping to make him a star in the USA. Mark tells us 'astrology is the love of my life. Mark is fifty-five, and we are introduced to him as he is forming a new working relationship with James Kingman, who is returning to work as an astrologer after a failed venture involving an art gallery. She reads her horoscopes keenly everyday, written by renowned astrologer Mark Ainsley-Thomas, and she's `a Gemini, full of passion pulling in opposite directions.' We meet her, as she tells us, on 'day one of the rest of my life', at her home in the Cotswolds which she shares with her quirkily named cat, No.4, as she ponders this new and uncertain future. NASA named its two-person space capsule Project Gemini after the zodiac sign because the spacecraft could carry two astronauts.Katherine is forty-two, and one day she finds she has been replaced in her job as an accountant despite all her hard work and success, and so she is hoping to start again, writing a book. When Castor died, because he was a mortal, Pollux begged his father Zeus to give Castor immortality, which was done through uniting them together in the heavens. Pollux was the son of Zeus, who seduced Leda, while Castor was the son of Tyndareus, the king of Sparta and Leda's husband. In Greek mythology, Gemini is associated with the myth of Castor and Pollux. Both names are titles of Nergal, a major Babylonian god of plague and pestilence, who was king of the underworld. Their names were Lugal-irra and Meslamta-ea, meaning "The Mighty King" and "The One who has arisen from the Underworld". In Babylonian astronomy, the stars Pollux and Castor were known as the Great Twins. Gemini is represented by the twins, Castor and Pollux, known as the Dioscuri in Greek mythology. Under the tropical zodiac, the sun transits this sign between about May 21 to June 21. Gemini ( ♊︎) ( / ˈ dʒ ɛ m ɪ n aɪ/ JEM-in-eye, Greek: Δίδυμοι, romanized: Dídymoi, Latin for " twins") is the third astrological sign in the zodiac.
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