From the author of the #1 bestselling The Time Traveler's Wife, a spectacularly compelling novel?set in and near Highgate Cemetery in London.Julia and Valentina Poole are twenty-year-old twin sisters with an intense attachment to each other. Their English aunt Elspeth Noblin dies and leaves them her London apartment. There are two conditions for this inheritance: that they live in the flat for a year before they sell it and that their parents not enter it. The girls move to Elspeth?s flat, which borders the vast Highgate Cemetery. There, Julia and Valentina discover that much is still alive in Highgate, including?perhaps?their aunt.