Last summer, when I heard that Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife author) had a new book coming out, I put it on hold at our library. My name came up at the perfect time. I’m reading it now during the Halloween season, which is timely, since the new book, Her Fearful Symmetry, is really a ghost story. When Elspeth Noblin dies in London, she leaves her London apartment and her estate to her two young twin nieces whom she had never met. Elspeth herself was a twin, and her nieces, Valentina and Julia, are her sister Edie’s children. Now, the 21-year-old twins have moved to London from Chicago, but find that Elspeth’s ghost is haunting the apartment. Filled with the lore of cemeteries (Highgate Cemetery in London), spirits, ghosts, and family secrets, Niffenegger’s latest book is the perfect choice to read on a chilly October/November night (read with a spot of tea on the side of course!)
~Ann
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