Her Fearful Symmetry
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
From the author of the #1 bestselling The Time Traveler’s Wife, a spectacularly compelling novel—set in and near Highgate Cemetery in London, about the love between twins, men and women, ghosts and the living.Julia and Valentina Poole are twenty-year-old sisters with an intense attachment to each other. One morning the mailman delivers a thick envelope to their house in th….Read More
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