BOOK: Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger

Title: Her Fearful Symmetry
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Genre: Novel
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 2009
Pages: Paperback, 390
Language: English
Rating: 8/10
Summary: Two American twinsisters inherit an appartment from their English aunt (their mother's estranged twinsister). Despite their mother's objections the girls decide to move to London.

Spoilerfree review
The long awaited second novel after The Time Traveler's Wife. Niffenegger's first book had such an original premise, that I was wondering what kind of story she would come up with next. Of course it was too much to expect a similar surprising story, but 'Her Fearful Symmetry is just as gripping.
In London the girls come to live on the middle floor of a building with three apartments; their aunt's lover lives downstairs and the upstairs apartment is occupied by a man with serious OCD who never goes outside. As it turns out their aunt never left the building either!
The characters won me over after the first three pages; they are such complete humans, with parts to love and hate. It's a joy to get to know all of them through their dialogues and thoughts. Even if the plot itself isn't as exciting as The Time Traveler's Wife, this still is an intriguing story and I recommend the book wholeheartedly.