After the phenomenal success of The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger has returned with a spectacularly compelling ghost story set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London.

When Elspeth Noblin dies of cancer, she leaves her London apartment to her 20-year-old 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 teenagers, with seemingly little interest in college, finding jobs, or anything outside their home in the suburbs of Chicago.

The girls move to Elspeth’s flat, which borders the vast and ornate Highgate 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.

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.