Audrey Niffenegger made her debut with the novel “The Time Traveler's Wife,” and this book literally conquered the world: translations into all languages, multimillion-dollar copies, the purchase of film rights by Brad Pitt and the long-awaited film adaptation in 2009. In the same 2009, Niffenegger released no less the long-awaited second novel - a story about ghosts and family secrets, about a metropolis teeming with the shadows of the past, about love over which even death has no power (in the most literal sense). The dying Elspeth Noblin bequeaths a London apartment to her nieces - the daughters of her twin sister Edwina, who She left for the USA with a scandal twenty years ago, and since then the sisters have not communicated. And so Julia and Valentina, also twins, move from Michigan to London, to a new house, which stands near the legendary Highgate Cemetery. Who leaves them messages on the dusty lid of the piano, whose cold breath can be felt in the empty apartment, who lured the Kitten of Death into the house?..