《时空旅人之妻》作者Audrey Niffenegger的最新小说作品，在上一本处女作《时空旅人之妻》出版六年后，Audrey Niffenegger出版这本《Her Fearful Symmetry》。

故事以Elspeth Noblin的死亡为开始，她把公寓留给她双胞胎妹妹的女儿，Julie与Valentina也是一对双胞胎，正当二十岁的年纪，对身边的任何事物都相当的好奇，于是他们来到英国这间公寓开始新的生活。过世阿姨的男友Robert住在楼下，因为姊妹与过世妻子的神似让他产生了新的情愫，也让这一对姊妹之间的感情产生的嫌隙。没想到Elspeth的灵魂还牵萦于此，对于旧日情人与姪女的感情，让她想尽方式与阳界沟通，而此时双胞胎Valentina却能透过媒介与这位去世的阿姨产生连结。在《时空旅人之妻》中，Audrey Niffenegger讲述了一个两人间的纯爱故事，在新作中她展现了绝佳的文笔处理更繁複的关係，两个世代双胞胎的爱情纠葛与阴阳两地的人鬼恋情，让这本新作在书市中投下震撼弹。

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.

Author of one of the most beloved first novels in recent years, Niffenegger returns with an unnerving, unforgettable and enchanting ghost story, a novel about love and identity, secrets and sisterhood and the tenacity of life—even after death.