《時空旅人之妻》作者Audrey Niffenegger的最新小說作品，在上一本處女作《時空旅人之妻》齣版六年後，Audrey Niffenegger齣版這本《Her Fearful Symmetry》。

故事以Elspeth Noblin的死亡為開始，她把公寓留給她雙胞胎妹妹的女兒，Julie與Valentina也是一對雙胞胎，正當二十歲的年紀，對身邊的任何事物都相當的好奇，於是他們來到英國這間公寓開始新的生活。過世阿姨的男友Robert住在樓下，因為姊妹與過世妻子的神似讓他産生瞭新的情愫，也讓這一對姊妹之間的感情産生的嫌隙。沒想到Elspeth的靈魂還牽縈於此，對於舊日情人與姪女的感情，讓她想盡方式與陽界溝通，而此時雙胞胎Valentina卻能透過媒介與這位去世的阿姨産生連結。在《時空旅人之妻》中，Audrey Niffenegger講述瞭一個兩人間的純愛故事，在新作中她展現瞭絕佳的文筆處理更繁複的關係，兩個世代雙胞胎的愛情糾葛與陰陽兩地的人鬼戀情，讓這本新作在書市中投下震撼彈。

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.