Barbadian Welsh identical twins, writer and crime duo
Factsheet
June Gibbons
Born (1963-04-11) 11 April 1963 (age 62)
British Forces Aden, Yemen
British Forces Aden, Yemen
Occupation Fiction author
June Gibbons
Born (1963-04-11) 11 April 1963 (age 62)
British Forces Aden, Yemen
British Forces Aden, Yemen
Occupation Fiction author
Wikipedia
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June and Jennifer Gibbons - Wikipedia
3 weeks ago - June Gibbons (born 11 April 1963) and Jennifer Gibbons (11 April 1963 – 9 March 1993) were Welsh twin sisters. They became known as "The Silent Twins", since they only communicated with each other. They wrote works of fiction. In 1981, the girls committed several crimes including vandalism, ...
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8,858 Followers, 26 Following, 37 Posts - June-Alison Gibbons (@june.alison.gibbons) on Instagram: "Official account of the artist, writer & author of “The Pepsi-Cola Addict”. Run by friends @davidtibet_current93 & @aniagoszczynska with her approval"
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“The Pepsi Cola” addict by June Gibbons is finally getting a reprint! It has to be because Marjorie Wallace’s “The Silent Twins” has been adapted into a major motion picture.
I am mildly interested. Is there a reason why collectors don't want to share copies digitally? It seems like archive.org is created for things such as this.
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September 20, 2021June and Jennifer Gibbons -- also known as The Silent Twins -- refused to communicate with anyone other than each other. In 1993 Jennifer died under mysterious circumstances. June's response, "I am free at last."
This reminds me of the "anorexic twins" on intervention. https://youtu.be/tUYfX37paoI Basically these twins were anorexic and depressed and engaged in negative behaviors but they were always essentially challenging eachother to be worse and just very codependent for negative things. Less extreme than only talking to eachother, and these twins got help after going to rehab but now live in different countries. They both implied they could only live normally away from eachother More on reddit.com
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May 21, 2016June and Jennifer Gibbons, “The Silent Twins.”
There was another set of twins who acted similarly. They were from Northern Europe I believe and one moved to the US. Once they were separated everything was fine. But then they got back together and almost instantly went nuts. There’s even video of one throwing herself under a semi trying to kill herself. She survived but yea when they were near each other they just went nuts More on reddit.com
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December 21, 2019I watched "The Silent Twins" recently. I really loved it, but I think I'm in the minority. Super stylized, and weird. give it a shot
I had no clue this came out already, such shit marketing imo. More on reddit.com
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February 15, 2022Reddit
reddit.com › r/interestingasfuck › june and jennifer gibbons, the “silent twins,” spoke only to each other in a secret language and were silent around others. after years in a psychiatric hospital, they believed one had to die for the other to be free. jennifer died suddenly, and june went on to live a quiet, normal life.
r/interestingasfuck on Reddit: June and Jennifer Gibbons, the “Silent Twins,” spoke only to each other in a secret language and were silent around others. After years in a psychiatric hospital, they believed one had to die for the other to be free. Jennifer died suddenly, and June went on to live a quiet, normal life.
July 24, 2025 - Jennifer Gibbons were identical twins born in Barbados and raised in Wales. They spoke only to each other in a private language and became completely silent around others. As teenagers, they were sent to a · psychiatric hospital, where they ...
The Modern Novel
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June Allison Gibbons | The Modern Novel
June Allison Gibbons was born in 1963 in Steamer Point hospital, an RAF hospital in Aden. She was the first of identical twins, her sister Jennifer being born just ten minutes later. Her parents were from Barbados. Her father worked for the RAF and was transferred to various bases, ending up ...
Literary Hub
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I Found a Rare Copy of June Allison Gibbons’ Outsider Novel
March 26, 2019 - Shortly after I first began working at the British Library, I knew that I’d use my newfound access to 150 million media objects—magazine articles, oral history recordings and books, many of them rare—to get my hands on The Pepsi-Cola Addict, the sole novel by June Allison Gibbons, one half of the infamous “silent twins.” Connoisseurs of weird crime stories—or weird twin stories, for that matter, or the surprisingly rich subgenre of weird twin crime stories—can do no better than the bizarre, tragic yarn of the Gibbons twins.
BBC
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BBC Audio | June: Voice of a Silent Twin
6 days ago - June: Voice of a Silent TwinJune, Voice of a Silent Twin…. Coming soon · The story of the Gibbons twins: a tale of isolation, ambition, love, crime and tragedy.
NPR
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The Silent Twins : NPR
May 8, 2015 - The Silent Twins June and Jennifer Gibbons were twin sisters who hadn't spoken to anyone but each other their whole lives.
Biblioklept
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A review of June-Alison Gibbons’ unsettling novel The Pepsi-Cola Addict
October 21, 2024 - This is, roughly, the premise of June-Alison Gibbons’ 1981 novel The Pepsi-Cola Addict, a raw and distressing young-adult novel that was actually written by a young adult. Gibbons was just sixteen-years-old when she wrote The Pepsi-Cola Addict and pooled her dole money with her twin sister Jennifer to have it published by a vanity press.
All That's Interesting
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The Strange Story Of June And Jennifer Gibbons, The 'Silent Twins' Who Only Spoke To Each Other
October 28, 2025 - Born in 1963 and raised by Barbadian immigrants in Wales, June and Jennifer Gibbons became known as the "silent twins" after speaking only to each other for decades.
BBC
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Broadmoor: Silent twin on being locked up with Ronnie Kray
December 26, 2023 - June and Jennifer decided to become writers in their teens so got a typewriter and started reading Jane Austen, DH Lawrence and Kingsley Amis books · Their story - that included arson, Broadmoor and mixing with murderers - started in Yemen in 1963 when the Gibbons sisters were born to Barbadian parents, who settled in Wales because of their father's job in the Royal Air Force.
Goodreads
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June Alison Gibbons (Author of The Pepsi-Cola Addict)
Born to Barbadian parents and raised in Wales, Jennifer and June refused to read or write in school, but at home it was the opposite: They read voraciously and filled dozens of diaries with writing, including full June Alison Gibbons and her ...
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Amazon
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The Pepsi Cola Addict: Gibbons, June-Alison, Tibet, David: 9781913689711: Amazon.com: Books
June-Alison Gibbons wrote The Pepsi Cola Addict in 1981, when she was 16. She now lives with her family in West Wales. Founder of the long running cult band Current 93, David Tibet is widely known as an artist and songwriter.
Podnews
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‘Silent Twin’ tells her story for the first time in a new BBC Sounds podcast
December 25, 2023 - In 1982, June and Jennifer Gibbons were the youngest women to be sent to Broadmoor Psychiatric Hospital after a crime spree that saw them cause hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of damage in arson, vandalism and theft over a period of five days.
The Guardian
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April de Angelis on troubled twins Jennifer and June Gibbons
June 2, 2021 - On June 20 1982, Jennifer and June Gibbons, troubled teenage twins, British-born of Barbadian parentage, each began what were to become 11-year sentences for petty theft and arson at Broadmoor, the secure psychiatric hospital in Berkshire.
Daily Mail
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Broadmoor's Silent Twin speaks: June Gibbons, who spent 11 years locked up for a crime spree, says the mute sisters were 'trapped in their twinship' as she tells her story for the first time - and reveals Jimmy Savile's vile comments | Daily Mail Online
January 27, 2024 - June Gibbons, who was committed to the institution with her twin Jennifer in 1981 after the pair had been caught committing a series of crimes, told a BBC podcast that she and her sister had been 'trapped in their twinship' and were 'anxious' ...
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Reddit
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r/books on Reddit: “The Pepsi Cola” addict by June Gibbons is finally getting a reprint! It has to be because Marjorie Wallace’s “The Silent Twins” has been adapted into a major motion picture.
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If you ever read “The Silent Twins” you are probably as excited for this news as I am. The book certainly has issues but the excerpts of June and Jennifer’s novels pointed to a pair of exciting voices. They always reminded me of S.E. Hinton but with an apocalyptic or nihilistic streak, Anthony Burgess would be a decent comparison.
The Gibbons Twins originally published their novels through Vanity Presses, paying out of pocket from their small disability pension. I think talents like theirs could find a publisher today but in the 1980’s there was little appreciation for Outsider Art, in the Literary World at least. That first printing is now extremely collectible, more so with this movie I’m sure. It was so hard to find that searchers would decide to keep it to themselves rather than sharing a PDF online, even if they were only able to acquire a photocopy.
For those unfamiliar with the book it is a young adult novel in the common trope of a misfit struggling against an uncaring world. The titular protagonist is a juvenile delinquent so addicted to Pepsi Cola that he drinks 300 in a single day. This is set in an America that could only exist in the yearning imagination of a young British girl. Parallels could easily be drawn to Kafka’s “Amerika” for this reason. The exaggeration and density of the prose (the small excerpts I’ve been able to read) also remind me a bit of Amos Tutuola and Roussel’s “Impressions d’Afrique”, another writer who wrote from imagination on a continent they would never visit.
The reprint is coming from MIT Press in 2023 and I’ve heard rumors that one of the actors in the biopic will be publishing one of Jennifer’s novels on their personal imprint. I don’t have the best expectations for the movie itself but the resulting reprints are very exciting!
Unresolved
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June & Jennifer Gibbons (The Silent Twins) — Unresolved
The story of the Silent Twins, June and Jennifer Gibbons is less of a scary crime story, and more of a tragic, heartbreaking story of two girls who were left behind by the system, due to a mixture of their race and their speech impediment, and as a result were forced to retreat into a world where they only really had each other to rely on - which is an unhealthy relationship dynamic for anyone, let alone two young girls facing a staggering amount of racism and prejudice.