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Violence
Barely any
No physical violence; the psychological horror of the novel's events
Language
Barely any
Mild language throughout
Sexual Content
Some
Some sexual content including a relationship between a ghost and a living person
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Strong psychological content: possession, twin psychology and enmeshment, obsessive love, and the novel's disturbing final turn create intense psychological content
What this book is about
Julia and Valentina, twenty-year-old American mirror-image twins, inherit their aunt Elspeth's flat in London overlooking Highgate Cemetery. Elspeth's ghost remains in the flat; their neighbor Martin is trapped by OCD. Audrey Niffenegger's gothic follow-up to The Time Traveler's Wife is stranger and darker, dealing with possession, obsession, twin psychology, and the Gothic tradition of desire and death in ways that become genuinely disturbing by the novel's end.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Possession and ghost-human relationships
The disturbing end the novel builds toward
Twin psychological enmeshment as a controlling dynamic
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