Her Fearful Symmetry / Audrey Niffenegger 406 p.

Identical twins, Julia and Valentina Poole, inherit a flat that borders Highgate Cemetery in London from their mom’s estranged identical twin sister. Elspeth made two provisions for the inheritance: they live there for a year and their parents not enter it. The twins get involved with the neighbors Robert, Elspeth’s younger lover, and Martin, crossword puzzle writer with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Robert seems to be perpetually writing his dissertation telling the history of the Highgate Cemetery where such notables as Karl Marx, Douglas Adams, George Eliot are interred. The twins and Robert discover that their aunt is still living a ghostly life in the apartment. Valentina longs to get out of the shadow of the domineering Julia. Elspeth and Valentina form an surreal attachment. Niffenegger description of OCD seems right on. Her compelling prose keeps the readers attention.