Product Description

Julia and Valentina Poole are normal American teenagers - normal, at least, for identical 'mirror' twins who have no interest in college or jobs. But everything changes when they receive notice that an aunt whom they didn't know existed has died and left them her flat in an apartment block overlooking Highgate Cemetery in London.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1773 in Books
• Published on: 2010-07-05
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 7.80" h x 1.22" w x 5.08" l, .73 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 496 pages

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Review
`A quirky delight.'
--Woman & Home

`A ghost story which is as much about the living as it is the dead' --Express

`Niffenegger's quirky characters and her depiction of tourist-fantasy London... [are] charming and inventive.'
--Daily mail

`there's enough off-beat characterisation to keep Niffeneger safely on the bestsellers list'
--Telegraph

From the Back Cover

'There may be ghosts, but it's the human stories that glitter' Elle

When Elspeth Noblin dies she leaves her beautiful flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina Poole, on the condition that their mother is never allowed to cross the threshhold. But until the solicitors' letter falls through the door of their suburban American home, neither Julia nor Valentina knew their aunt existed. The twins feel that in London their own lives can finally begin but have no idea that they have been summoned into a tangle of fraying lives, from the obsessive-compulsive crossword setter who lives above them to their aunt's mysterious and elusive lover, who lives below them and works in the cemetery itself.

As the twins unravel the secrets of their aunt, who doesn't seem quite ready to leave her flat, even after death, Niffenegger weaves a delicious and deadly ghost story about love, loss and identity.

'A shocking denouement...nicely atmospheric' Sunday Telegraph

'A rich, involving novel' The Times

'The boundaries between spirit and human form are comprehensively crossed, in an episode that would make Mary Shelley proud' Sunday Times

About the Author

Audrey Niffenegger is an exceptionally creative writer and visual artist who has achieved enormous success in both worlds. Her debut novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, has sold nearly five million copies worldwide and has been translated into thirty-three languages to date. A Richard & Judy book club choice in the UK, it has been a huge bestseller all round the world. In the Daily Telegraph's readers' poll of the 'Top 50 Books of All Time' it appeared at no. 11. Niffenegger is also the author of two 'novels-in-pictures', The Three Incestuous Sisters(2005) and The Adventuress (2006), both published by Cape. Her graphic novel The Night Bookmobile was recently serialized in the Guardian and will be published soon on the Cape Graphic list.

A Chicago native, Niffenegger received her MFA in Printmaking and Drawing from Northwestern University. Her art has been widely exhibited in the United States and is in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress and Harvard University's Houghton Library.