- Published: 2 December 2025
- ISBN: 9781529955637
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 496
- RRP: $22.99
Her Fearful Symmetry

















- Published: 2 December 2025
- ISBN: 9781529955637
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 496
- RRP: $22.99
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
[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...
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
Dark and delicious
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 Traveler'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
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, shopping trips in Knightsbridge and cucumber sandwiches for tea - it's charming 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
What is really satisfying about this novel, like The Time Traveler's Wife, is its depiction of relationships: the process of grief, the transforming power of love
Daily Telegraph
An original, outrageous, and thoroughly enjoyable ghost story
Independent
A rich, involving novel
The Times
A quirky delight
Woman & Home
Stop Press. This is it. A hot contender for Book of the Year
Red Magazine
Reminiscent of the expert plotting of The Time Traveler's Wife... Those who favour tales of ghosts, strange twins and dark love affairs will find that this is their book
Boston Globe
Her Fearful Symmetry glows all over with an addictive, crowd-pleasing charm... A witty ghost story
San Francisco Chronicle