Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Full number line starting with 1. Mylar cover included.
“There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.”
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 a 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 about love and identity, about secrets and sisterhood, and about the tenacity of life—even after death.
Read Alikes for Her Fearful Symmetry: The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters; The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe; The Distant Hours by Kate Morton; The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen; The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett; Phantom Limb by Lucinda Berry
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Full number line starting with 1. Mylar cover included.
“There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.”
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 a 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 about love and identity, about secrets and sisterhood, and about the tenacity of life—even after death.
Read Alikes for Her Fearful Symmetry: The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters; The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe; The Distant Hours by Kate Morton; The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen; The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett; Phantom Limb by Lucinda Berry
ISBN 978-1-4391-6539-3
Audrey Niffenegger
2005
