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GHOST WRITER
Author Audrey Niffenegger didn't see the film version of her best-selling novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, which came out this summer, nor does she ever plan to. Once other people are working with your characters, they're not really your characters anymore, she says. I'm happy when people like the movie, but it isn't the book.
(Her attitude is probably a good thing, considering the film, which starred Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana, was panned by critics and audiences alike.)
Now Niffenegger is promoting her second tome, Her Fearful Symmetry (Scribner). The story revolves around twin sisters Julia and Valentina, who move from Chicago to London to occupy the flat of their deceased aunt, Elspeth. Eventually they realize Elspeth haunts the apartment, which is adjacent to London's renowned Highgate Cemetery, and begin communicating with her through writing and Ouija in an effort to uncover family secrets.
Like Time Traveler's, Niffenegger's latest work is...