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Bookcase - a round-up of the week's latest releases.
(From The Daily Star)
NEW FICTION Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger is published in hardback by Jonathan Cape, priced GBP18.99. Available now.
The massive success of her debut novel, 2003's The Time Traveler's Wife, has put the pressure on Audrey Niffenegger to again come up with the goods with her follow-up, Her Fearful Symmetry - a ghost story which took seven years to write.
It centres on Julia and Va lentina, identical twins from Chicago who spookily dress alike and hold hands in public.
They are left a flat overlooking London's Highgate Cemetery by their aunt Elspeth, their mother's twin who they never met and who was estranged from her sister. The condition to the inheritance is that they live in the flat for a year.
Their neighbours are a weird lot - a man with obsessive compulsive disorder …
