Her Fearful Symmetry (PB)
Niffenegger, Audrey
Mirror-image twins Julia and Valentina seem to be going nowhere in life, in this second novel from the author of The Time Traveler`s Wife, until a packet arrives at their Chicago home. Their aunt Elspeth - their mother`s twin, whom they never knew - has died and left them her London flat. Once there, the girls find their aunt`s obsessive-compulsive neighbor Martin, who writes crossword puzzles, and her grief-stricken lover Robert, who is writing a history of next-door Highgate Cemetery. Then they meet Elpseth herself, now a disembodied spirit, and find that she is still very much a part of the living world. Audrey Niffenegger`s deliciously gothic ghost tale is full of obsessive and possessive loves, exchanged lives and traded souls. "The...
ISBN: 978-1-4391-6901-8
Дата выхода: январь 2012