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| Title | : | Her Fearful Symmetry |
| Author | : | Audrey Niffenegger |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 406 pages |
| Published | : | September 29th 2009 by Jonathan Cape Ltd |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Fantasy. Paranormal. Mystery. Ghosts. Contemporary. Supernatural |
Audrey Niffenegger
Hardcover | Pages: 406 pages Rating: 3.24 | 85714 Users | 12234 Reviews
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Six years after the phenomenal success of The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger has returned with a spectacularly compelling and haunting second novel set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London.When Elspeth Noblin dies of cancer, she leaves her London apartment to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina. These two American girls never met their English aunt, only knew that their mother, too, was a twin, and Elspeth her sister. Julia and Valentina are semi-normal American teenagers--with seemingly little interest in college, finding jobs, or anything outside their cozy home in the suburbs of Chicago, and with an abnormally intense attachment to one another.
The girls move to Elspeth's flat, which borders Highgate Cemetery in London. They come to know the building's other residents. There is Martin, a brilliant and charming crossword puzzle setter suffering from crippling Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; Marjike, Martin's devoted but trapped wife; and Robert, Elspeth's elusive lover, a scholar of the cemetery. As the girls become embroiled in the fraying lives of their aunt's neighbors, they also discover that much is still alive in Highgate, including--perhaps--their aunt, who can't seem to leave her old apartment and life behind.
Niffenegger weaves a captivating story in Her Fearful Symmetry about love and identity, about secrets and sisterhood, and about the tenacity of life--even after death.
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| Original Title: | Her Fearful Symmetry |
| ISBN: | 0224085611 (ISBN13: 9780224085618) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Elspeth Noblin, Edwina Noblin, Julia Poole, Valentina Poole, Robert Fanshawe, Jack Poole, Martin Wells, Marijke Wells, Jessica Bates, James Bates |
| Setting: | London, England |
| Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Favorite Book & Fiction (2009) |
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Ratings: 3.24 From 85714 Users | 12234 ReviewsComment On About Books Her Fearful Symmetry
Throw a huge cemetery, a cold & wintery London, bizzare mirror twins, a ferrel kitten and a recntly dead Aunt into a pot together and the result is a wonderfully quirky, melancholoy, spooky book.The story is set around Highgate Cemetery in London where a recently dead Elspeth has left her appartment to her twenty year old American nieces, Julia and Valentina, who are mirror twins. When the twins arrive in their new home they soon learn that they are not alone as it appears their Aunt ElspethI definitely don't know how to review this one. For context, I adored Time Traveler's Wife to pieces, and I normally keep my distance from anything that even hints of romance. The entire time I was reading Her Fearful Symmetry, I had a hard time remembering that the same author wrote both books. HFS has a nice gothic atmosphere, which reaches from the tone to the ghostly elements to the setting (London's Highgate Cemetery). I felt like it had more in common with Tana French's (awesome) mysteries
this book is like an episode of the twilight zone on crack combined with a shakespeare tragedy.
Heres a question: What would you do if you had an overbearing, bossy twin sister whom you needed to get away from??a. Bear with it shes family after all.b. Elope with your middle-aged boyfriend.c. Get your parents involved and have a long family chat.d. Willingly die, and then try to resurrect yourself without her knowledge.??The meek twin in this story... she goes for option d.......This book was full of really absurd people doing really absurd things. The only way I managed to finish this was
This was difficult to put down but I deliberately tried to read slowly beause it was such a pleasure to read. Niffenegger is one of the finest contemporary writers and noone does longing and stymied love better than she does.This book reminded me of "Time Traveler's Wife" as well as "The Lovely Bones." The stories center on an apartment building right off of Highgate Cemetery in London. One apartment belongs to Elspeth Noblin who dies on the first page of the book and bequeaths the apartment to
The fact that this book is titled after a line in one of my least favorite poems ever* should perhaps be a strike against it, but the title is quite fitting and somehow makes even more sense in this context than in Blake's use of it. This is the story of two sets of twins (hence the symmetry) who have an extremely odd system of relationships -- "system," because the story explores the highly varied and yet remarkably similar relationships between the four twins. To say too much about these
Her Fearful Symmetry is seriously creepy. I read it because I really enjoyed the authors debut novel. But this book is far from enjoyable: the characters are despicable (all of them), the storyline is nonsensical (lots of whys and hows and whats), and its just creepy.
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