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Oh what a wonderful book! I can't believe I initially discounted it as 'not my sort of thing'. If I hadn't heard the author read from it at the Edinburgh BookFest this year (she read the opening of the chapter entitled 'The History Of Her Ghost') I might never have picked it up.

This is a romance cum ghost story which, I have to admit, is not a promising start for me. It starts with the death of Elspeth and from there we are introduced to her lover: Robert, her twin: Edie, twin nieces: Julia & Valentina, quirky neighbours and, most importantly, Highgate Cemetery and it's 'friends'. Elspeth leaves her flat to the girls on the condition that their parents never step foot in it. They take up residence a year later, but so does Elspeth! As her abilities as a ghost grow, so does the way she interacts with her surroundings and with the people she loved.

Loved the descriptions of Highgate, loved the OCD neighbour, in fact loved all the characterisations if not the actual characters.... particularly loved the 'little kitten of death'! Obviously you have to suspend belief in a ghost story, so didn't see all the twists coming but it kept me interested throughout and was quite a page turner towards the end, waiting to see how it would all pull together.

Finally, the blurb on the back says:

'When Elspeth Noblin dies she leaves her beautiful flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina Poole, on the condition that their mother is never allowed to cross the threshhold. But until the solicitors' letter falls through the door of their suburban American home, neither Julia nor Valentina knew their aunt existed. The twins feel that in London their own lives can finally begin but have no idea that they have 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 works in the cemetery itself.

As the twins unravel the secrets of their aunt, who doesn't seem quite ready to leave her flat, even after death, Niffenegger weaves a delicious and deadly ghost story about love, loss and identity.'

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Although this book is registered at www.bookcrossing.com, you don't have to be a member. It's perfectly OK to just take the book and enjoy it. Of course, if you can visit the website and let us know that you've picked it up, that would be even better - you don't even have to join, you can add your comments anonymously - you can also post your review when you've read it, then return it or pass it on to someone else.

If you do join Bookcrossing, you'll be able to see what happens to it afterwards - for ever!

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Although this book is registered at www.bookcrossing.com, you don't have to be a member. It's perfectly OK to just take the book and enjoy it. Of course, if you can visit the website and let us know that you've picked it up, that would be even better - you don't even have to join, you can add your comments anonymously - you can also post your review when you've read it, then return it or pass it on to someone else.

If you do join Bookcrossing, you'll be able to see what happens to it afterwards - for ever!

Caught at the Old Gang meet up to wild release at the Meadows LFL. Thank you!

And off it goes to find a new reader at the Little Free Library. Happy reading!