Her Fearful Symmetry

Her Fearful Symmetry

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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.

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• Well worth a read!

  Reviewed by Kirsty W. | see all reviews by Kirsty W.

  09/08/2010

  I could not put this book down! The characters really draw you in and it is a well thought out, highly engaging story. It is classis Niffenegger in that her storylines and subject matter can be somewhat off the beaten track but that's what makes it so enjoyable. Hard to get in Australia so worth ordering from Borders online.
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