The setting is brilliant - Highgate Cemetery where Niffenegger worked for a year to get background for her book. But somehow for me it never took off. I found the characters - the weird American twins, the agoraphobic man whose wife has fled to Amsterdam, the ghosts and the hauntings, all too unbelievable and disengaging. It's not a patch on The Time Traveler's Wife. (bwl 29)
(Jenny Baker - bwl 57 Summer 2010 ) |
