Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger

Her Fearful Symmetry

By: Audrey Niffenegger

Paperback | 2 August 2010 | Edition Number 1

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Another brilliant, original and moving novel from the author of The Time Traveler's Wife

Julia and Valentina Poole are normal American teenagers – normal, at least, for identical 'mirror' twins who have no interest in college or jobs or possibly anything outside their cozy suburban home. But everything changes when they receive notice that an aunt whom they didn't know existed has died and left them her flat in an apartment block overlooking Highgate Cemetery in London. They feel that at last their own lives can begin...

But they have no idea that they've been summoned into a tangle of fraying lives, from the obsessive-compulsive crossword setter who lives above them to their aunt's mysterious and elusive lover who lives below them, and even to their aunt herself, who never got over her estrangement from the twins' mother – and who can't even seem to quite leave her flat...

With Highgate Cemetery itself a character and echoes of Henry James and Charles Dickens, Her Fearful Symmetry is a delicious and deadly twenty-first-century ghost story about Niffenegger's familiar themes of love, loss and identity. It is certain to cement her standing as one of the most singular and remarkable novelists of our time.

About The Author

Audrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and a professor at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, where she teaches writing, letterpress printing and fine edition book production. Her first novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, was published in 2003 and was a bestseller around the world. A film, starring Eric Bana, was released in 2009. Her novel-in-pictures, The Three Incestuous Sisters was originally published in an edition of ten copies in 1998, having taken thirteen years to create, and was published by Jonathan Cape in 2005.
Industry Reviews
Dark and delicious -- Tom Adair * Scotsman *
What is really satisfying about this novel, like The Time Traveler's Wife, is its depiction of relationships: the process of grief, the transforming power of love * Daily Telegraph *
An original, outrageous, and thoroughly enjoyable ghost story * Independent *
There may be ghosts, but it's the human stories that glitter * Elle *
A rich, involving novel * The Times *

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