HER FEARFUL SYMMETRY

Niffenegger, Audrey

ISBN 10: 1439169012 / ISBN 13: 9781439169018

Published by Scribner, 2009

About this Item

Scribner Books, c2009. first printing. 8vo. Signed by Audrey Niffenegger on title-page. Uncreased spine, fine trade paperback.

Seller Inventory # 83255

Bibliographic Details

• Title: HER FEARFUL SYMMETRY
• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1439169012
• ISBN 13: 9781439169018
• Binding: Trade paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • FICTION

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Audrey Niffenegger is a writer and visual artist who lives in Chicago and London. She has published two novels, The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry, and many illustrated books including The Night Bookmobile and Raven Girl. She is currently at work on The Other Husband, a sequel to The Time Traveler's Wife, which is now an HBO series.