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    Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
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    After Elspeth's death from leukemia, her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina, move into her flat in London where Elspeth herself is trapped as a ghost. They take up with the other residents including Elsepth's boyfriend, Robert, downstairs, and Martin, gripped by OCD upstairs. Everyone begins to come undone. The characters are completely engaging but what kept me reading was the deft handling of the plot twists and turns and the teases the author hands out that hint at Elspeth's secret, the reason she's estranged from her identical twin sister for more than 20 years. The story immerses the reader into the lives of a family and their friends that include two sets of identical twins. Most of the action takes place in London near Highgate Cemetery where we meet very English characters who are juxtaposed with the American twins who have been brought up in the United States.

    The End ELSPETH DIED while Robert was standing in front of a vending machine watching tea shoot into a small plastic cup. Later he would remember walking down the hospital corridor with the cup of hor...

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