Her Fearful Symmetry

“...(Niffenegger) has a knack for taking the romantic into the realm of creepiness, and she constructs a taut mystery around the secret to be found in Elspeth's diaries...It's no small achievement that the revelations are both organic and completely unexpected”

The New Yorker

“Delicious and deadly”

Yorkshire Evening Post

“A powerful and beautiful exploration of the relationships between the living and the dead...Niffenegger's writing has lost none of its emotional power”

Psychologies

“The depiction of Highgate Cemetery and its inhabitants is haunting... and meticulously researched”

The List

“A ghostly love story and a lovely ghost story.”

Tatler

“The novel's representation of London rings completely true"; "The universe of Her Fearful Symmetry is solid and familiar..."; "This is a rich, involving novel...”

John O'Connell, The Times

“It's been worth the wait...Niffenegger's books are fabulously left field, striking an unlikely balance between romance and fantasy. A brilliantly beautiful book.”

Glamour

“Chillingly good”

Eithne Farry, Marie Claire

“A one-off pleasure”

Fanny Blake, Woman & Home

“There's no mistaking Niffenegger's originality or her own commitment to her imagined world. She's a real rarity: at once a good writer and a genuine obsessive”

David Sexton, Evening Standard

“Many readers will adore this sort of plot”

Lucy Atkins, Sunday Times

“Stylish, easy to read... with a dark, delicious plot which has several neat twists”

Tom Adair, Scotsman

“Accomplished and considered”

Stephanie Merritt, Observer

“Delicious prose...she lays out her story in delectable, textual pictures...a powerful, beautifully written ghost story”

Mslexia

“There may be ghosts, but it's the human stories that glitter”

Elle

“A multi-layered, absorbingly nuanced love story...Beautifully constructed and unfurling with exquisite tragedy, Niffenegger proves The Time Traveller's Wife was not a one-off”

Easy Living

“Niffenegger's story is written with a lightness of touch and with a great eye for the oddities of human behaviour”

Lorna Bradbury, Daily Telegraph

“a nicely atmospheric book”

Catherine Taylor, Sunday Telegraph

“Niffenegger rarely reverts to stereotypes when creating her characters...they are always interesting..." "...Niffenegger's writing...becomes beautifully simple and poignant." "...an emotional depth rarely found in ghost stories."”

Shirley Whiteside, Sunday Herald

“A ghost story which is as much about the living as it is the dead”

Charlotte Vowden, Express

“Niffenegger's quirky characters and her depiction of tourist-fantasy London - with its Tube rides, shoppingtrips in Knightsbridge and cucumber sandwiches for tea - it'scharming and inventive.”

Laura Silverman, Daily Mail

“There's enough off-beat characterisation to keep Niffeneger safely on the bestsellers list”

Holly Kyte, Telegraph Seven Magazine