Her Fearful Symmetry
- Published: 1 May 2010
- ISBN: 9781409076919
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 496
...(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