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Her Fearful Symmetry Book
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Amazon Review
Amazon Best of the Month, September 2009: Following her breakout bestseller, The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger returns with Her Fearful Symmetry, a haunting tale about the complications of love, identity, and sibling rivalry. The novel opens with the death of Elspeth Noblin, who bequeaths her London flat and its contents to the twin daughters of her estranged twin sister back in Chicago. These 20-year-old dilettantes, Julie and Valentina, move to London, eager to try on a new experience like one of their obsessively matched outfits. Historic Highgate Cemetery, which borders Elspeth's home, serves as an inspired setting as the twins become entwined in the lives of their neighbors: Elspeth's former lover, Robert; Martin, an agoraphobic crossword-puzzle creator; and the ethereal Elspeth herself, struggling to adjust to the afterlife. Niffenegger brings these quirky, troubled characters to marvelous life, but readers may need their own supernatural suspension of disbelief as the story winds to its twisty conclusion. --Brad Thomas Parsons
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Product Description
Another brilliant, original and moving novel from the author of The Time Travelerâ??s Wife.
Julia and Valentina Poole are normal American teenagers â?? normal, at least, for identical â??mirrorâ? 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 didnâ??t know existed has died and left them her amazing flat in a building by Highgate Cemetery in London. They feel that at last their own lives can begin â?¦ but they have no idea that theyâ??ve been summoned into a tangle of fraying lives, from the OCD-suffering crossword setter who lives above them to their auntâ??s mysterious and elusive lover who lives below them, and even to their aunt herself, who never got over her estrangement from the mother of the girls â?? her own twin â?? and who canâ??t even seem to quite leave her flatâ?¦.
From the Hardcover edition.
- 022408562X
- 9780224085625
- Audrey Niffenegger
- 1 October 2009
- Jonathan Cape
- Perfect Paperback (Book)
- 390
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