Her Fearful Symmetry

by Audrey Niffenegger

Friday, April 23, 2010

I loved the book of The Time Traveller’s Wife but found it such a unique quirky kind of a thing that I wasn’t sure it’s success could be repeated. It was completely unbelievable whilst being completely true to itself and exceedingly captivating at the same time.

I was really pleased to find that this book manages to pull off the same kind of trick without in any way emulating the first book. It is basically a ghost story - a genre that generally just annoys me by breaking what I consider to be the rules - but it’s much more than your average haunting in Highgate cemetery. The ghostly elements don’t seem out of place and the human characteristics are spot on.

Really pleased this turned out to be fabulous!