Her Fearful Semmetry

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Scribner
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: First Edition

Description: 460 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. Twins Valentina And Julia Have Been Left A London Apartment By An Aunt They Never Knew, A Condition That They Live In It For A Year Before They Sell It, And Their Parents May Not Enter It.

Publishers Description: Audrey Niffenegger's spectacularly compelling second novel opens with a letter that alters the fate of every character. Julia and Valentina Poole are semi-normal American twenty-year-olds with seemingly little interest in college or finding jobs. Their attachment to one another is intense. One morning the mailman delivers a thick envelope to their house in the suburbs of Chicago. From a London solicitor, the enclosed letter informs Valentina and Julia that their English aunt Elspeth Noblin, whom they never knew, has died of cancer and left them her London apartment. There are two conditions to this inheritance: that they live in it for a year before they sell it and that their parents not enter it. Julia and Valentina are twins. So were the estranged Elspeth and Edie, their mother.The girls move to Elspeth's flat, which borders the vast and ornate Highgate Cemetery, where Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Radclyffe Hall, Stella Gibbons and Karl Marx are buried. Julia and Valentina come to know the living residents of their building. There is Martin, a brilliant and charming crossword-puzzle setter suffering from crippling obsessive compulsive disorder; Marijke, 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.

ISBN: 9781439165393