If I could convey a shrill, high-pitched tone of HYSTERICALASTOUNDMENT and DELERIOUSEXCITEMENT, I would. But I can’t. So caps lock must suffice on this occasion. Otherwise, picture me marching up and down outside your offices and homes with a megaphone shouting: Sweet Valley High: TEN YEARS LATER. Can you believe it? The flaxen haired Californian twins, with their perfect size 10 bodies and their long, lean limbs (from years of tennis practice) are back. With a bang. The real genesis of the Hills – the Wakefield twins – have been reimagined 10 years on, and all of a sudden, their santized crushes on Jock/ Brad/ Todd and their incessant baking of oatmeal cookies have been replaced by ‘Sex’ ‘Drugs’ and ‘Rock and Roll’. Show me a girl of the 80′s who didn’t own the entire extended collection of Sweet Valley High and I’ll show you an uncultured and narrow-minded buffoon. These gals offered up excitement and sunshine in our recession-filled misery. And now, once again, they rise from the ashes of the pheonix and offer sexed-up highjinks for our depraved, Recession II generation. Author Francine Pascal reunited the twins and their circle of friends for the Confidential series which is to be released in early 2011. And you can pre-order. Many, many thanks to Yolanda Barker of Barkers Bites for alerting me to this amazing news piece.
