Who does Jackie have to juggle daily ?
The pace increases imperceptibly , creeping up on the reader , until what started as a fairly sober and straightforward study of generational conflicts ends in a pyrotechnic climax which exploits every Shakespearian device - identical twins , lost siblings , transposed parents , unlikely couples , outrageous coincidences and brazenly expedient plotting - to an extent which might have made even the Bard blush . "