HER FEARFUL SYMMETRY
Scribner
www.AudreyNiffenegger.com
5 Signed Copies will be given away on Friday, October 2, 2009
Audrey Niffenegger talks about her long-awaited follow up to The Time Traveler's Wife and her approach to writing novels. Listen to the exclusive interview with Audrey Niffenegger here!**FBF First Look!
This book releases on September 29. Win one of the first released copies...autographed by the author!
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Six years after the phenomenal success of The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger has returned with a spectacularly compelling and haunting second novel set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London.
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 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 in Her Fearful Symmetry about love and identity, about secrets and sisterhood, and about the tenacity of life--even after death.
And don't miss Audrey's first novel, THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, now a major motion picture starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana!
About the Author:
Audrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and a guide at Highgate Cemetery. In addition to her bestselling debut novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, she is the author of two illustrated novels, The Three Incestuous Sisters and The Adventuress. She lives in Chicago. Visit her website at: www.AudreyNiffenegger.com
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12 comments:
I loved the Time Traveller's Wife. So did my husband.
I haven't read The Time Traveler's Wife yet. I'm not sure if I'm ever going to, but this one looks very interesting to me. Quirky characters, or "off-kilter" characters do appeal to me a bit.
Oh this sounds so good. Loved the Time Traveler's Wife so I know this will be just as wonderful!
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Have never read any of Audrey Niffenegger's books. This sounds really good. Please put me in the drawing. Thanks! Have a great day!
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I've seen so many reviews for this one and i am anxious to read it! I've never read her other one but its on my list.
Oh this one looks so good! I've heard great reviews about it.
Loved Time Traveler's Wife and want to read this one, too. I like her unique, offbeat style of story telling.
Both of the author's books sound really good and the genre that I like. One thing I don't understand though - if the author lives in Chicago, how is she a guide at a London cemetery?
Hi Kat,
Great question! You'll have to listen to the interview to find out!
This book looks amazing! If only I had the money to buy all the books I want! I would LOVE to win it!
I've heard lots about this one already. It looks like it's going to be good.
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