![]() There is Martin, a brilliant and charming crossword-puzzle setter suffering from crippling obsessive compulsive disorder Marijke, Martin's devoted but trapped wife and Robert, Elspeth's elusive lover, a scholar of the cemetery. Julia and Valentina come to know the living residents of their building. ![]() So were the estranged Elspeth and Edie, their mother.The girls move to Elspeth's flat, which borders the vast and ornate Highgate Cemetery, where Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Radclyffe Hall, Stella Gibbons and Karl Marx are buried. There are two conditions to this inheritance: that they live in it for a year before they sell it and that their parents not enter it. From a London solicitor, the enclosed letter informs Valentina and Julia that their English aunt Elspeth Noblin, whom they never knew, has died of cancer and left them her London apartment. One morning the mailman delivers a thick envelope to their house in the suburbs of Chicago. ![]() Their attachment to one another is intense. ![]() light edge wear Julia and Valentina Poole are semi-normal American twenty-year-olds with seemingly little interest in college or finding jobs. ![]()
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