**With all sorts of delightful *Parent Trap-*style identical twin
hijinks, The Invention of Sophie Carter is the perfect light-and-sweet
palate cleanser.
**
1851. Bounced from one home to another their whole lives, orphaned
identical twins Sophie and Mariah Carter have always relied on each
other for love and support, even though the sisters couldn't be more
different.
Brash Sophie wants to be an inventor, and demure Mariah wants to be an
artist. Both long to visit London for the summer--Sophie to see the
Queen's Great Exhibition and Mariah to study the world's finest
collection of paintings. But when their cantankerous aunt answers their
letter pleading for a place to stay, she insists she only has time and
room to spare for one of them.
So, Mariah and Sophie hatch a clever scheme: They will travel to London
together and take turns playing the part of Sophie.
At first the plan runs like clockwork. But as the girls avoid getting
caught by increasingly narrow margins and two handsome gentlemen--both
of whom think they're falling in love with the real Sophie
Carter--enter the equation, the sisters find they don't have the
situation quite as under control as they thought.