How long does it take to read Her Fearful Symmetry?
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger takes about 7 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 27 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2009. 406 pages, about 111,650 words. Written for young adults.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
At last: another brilliant, original and moving novel from the author of THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE. Julia and Valentina Poole are normal American teenagers — normal, at least, for identical 'mirror' twins who have no interest in college or jobs or possibly anything outside their cozy suburban home. But everything changes when they receive notice that an aunt whom they didn't know existed has died and left them her flat in an apartment block overlooking Highgate Cemetery in London. They feel that at last their own lives can begin . . . but have no idea that they've been summoned into a tangle of fraying lives, from the obsessive-compulsive crossword setter who lives above them to their aunt's mysterious and elusive lover who lives below them, and even to their aunt herself, who never got over her estrangement from the twins' mother — and who can't even seem to quite leave her flat . . . With Highgate Cemetery itself a character and echoes of Henry James and Charles Dickens, HER FEARFUL SYMMETRY is a delicious and deadly twenty-first-century ghost story about Niffenegger's familiar themes of love, loss and identity. It is certain to cement her standing as one of the most singular and remarkable novelists of our time.
Subjects: Fiction, Sisters, Spiritual life, Aunts, Teenage girls, Fiction, psychological
