Her Fearful Symmetry
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Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
From the author of the #1 bestselling The Time Traveler's Wife, a spectacularly compelling novel--set in and near Highgate Cemetery in London, about the love between twins, men and women, ghosts and the living. Julia and Valentina Poole are twenty-year-old sisters with an intense attachment to each other. One morning the mailman delivers a thick envelope to their house in the suburbs of Chicago. Their English aunt Elspeth Noblin has died of cancer and left them her London apartment. There are two conditions for this inheritance: that they live in the flat for a year before they sell it and that their parents not enter it. Julia and Valentina are twins. So were the girls' aunt Elspeth and their mother, Edie. The girls move to Elspeth's flat, which borders the vast Highgate Cemetery, where Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Stella Gibbons, and other luminaries are buried. Julia and Valentina become involved with their living neighbors: Martin, a composer of crossword puzzles who suffers from crippling OCD, and Robert, Elspeth's elusive lover, a scholar of the cemetery. They also discover that much is still alive in Highgate, including--perhaps--their aunt.Audrey Niffenegger is the author of The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry, as well as a fine artist who has collaborated with Abrams on three illustrated books: The Three Incestuous Sisters, The Adventuress, and The Night Bookmobile. She splits her time between Chicago and London.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781439169018 |
| ISBN 10 | 1439169012 |
| Title | Her Fearful Symmetry |
| Author | Audrey Niffenegger |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Scribner Book Company |
| Year published | 2010-06-29 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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