Her Fearful Symmetry

by Audrey Niffenegger

Knopf Canada | June 27, 2011 | Hardcover

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Another brilliant, original and moving novel from the author of The Time Traveler's Wife.

Julia and Valentina Poole are normal American teenagers - normal, at least, for identical "mirror" twins who have no interest in college or jobs or possibly anything outside their cozy suburban home. But everything changes when they receive notice that an aunt whom they didn't know existed has died and left them her amazing flat in a building by Highgate Cemetery in London. They feel that at last their own lives can begin … but they have no idea that they've been summoned into a tangle of fraying lives, from the OCD-suffering crossword setter who lives above them to their aunt's mysterious and elusive lover who lives below them, and even to their aunt herself, who never got over her estrangement from the mother of the girls - her own twin - and who can't even seem to quite leave her flat….
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    Slow start, but enjoyable overall
    by Elle Dub
    2 years ago

    The first half of this book put me to sleep. Nothing really happened. It was mostly filled with character and location descriptions. I expect that from every story, but it went on too long, filling up the first half of the book. I didn't like any of the characters. I was ready to give up on the whole thing. But then the girls met the ghost and FINALLY it got interesting. The second half of the story saved it for me. Now I can say I enjoyed the book.

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