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...know of Audrey Niffenegger is her achingly romantic novel The Time Traveler's Wife, then you're in for a surprise with her latest. Her Fearful Symmetry, Niffenegger's follow-up to her time-hopping best seller, is a Victorian ghost story set in the present that's more in tune with her creepy "visual novels" The Adventuress and The Three Incestuous Sisters. Starring a pair of waifish twins who inherit their mysterious (and dead, but maybe not-so-dead) aunt's London flat, the book is set in and around the city's famous Highgate Cemetery. Niffenegger talked...
...holds three long-distance world sailing records. His book, Racing a Ghost Ship, won the Scientific American Young Readers Book Award. His MIT master’s thesis on the Antarctic Krill Fishery spawned legislation in Congress to build a fisheries research vessel capable of traveling to the Antartic...
...Received a diagnosis in 1979 of endometriosis, a hormonal disorder that left her unable to have children. Her struggles with this were chronicled in her 2003 memoir Giving Up the Ghost...
Julia and Valentina flit off to London to their luxurious new apartment--which turns out to be haunted by Elspeth, who is perplexed to discover that she has become a ghost. "What am I supposed to be learning from the spiritual equivalent of house arrest?" she wonders. "Is this an oversight on the part of the celestial authorities?" She can't leave the apartment, though she can, with great effort, nudge physical objects. (Thus vindicating the "noetic science" of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol...
...fashioned with such twiddly bespoke neatness, such fussy perfection, that the whole affair is like a tragedy performed by exquisite dolls: lovely and precious and lifeless. Only the spectral Elspeth feels real. And what does it say about a novel that the one character who feels alive is a ghost...