Her Fearful Symmetry Her Fearful Symmetry Her Fearful Symmetry is a literary ghost story novel by American writer Audrey Niffenegger. The book was published on 1 October 2009 and is set in London's Highgate Cemetery where, during research for the book, Niffenegger acted as a tour guide. The novel's title is inspired by "The Tyger", a poem by the English poet William Blake, which begins ""Tyger! Tyger! burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"". Considering the setting of the novel, some critics have also pointed out a potential verbal
HMS Tyger approached Garden Key. The crew set fire to the wreck of the "Tyger" and again prepared to defend themselves. During a parley under a flag of truce, the Spanish informed the English that their longboat had been captured, with three of the crew killed and the rest imprisoned in Havana. After an offer of food and water was refused by the "Tyger", the Spanish sloop sailed away. In 1743 the Governor of Cuba claimed, in connection with the wreck of the "Tyger", that the Spanish had attacked and taken a launch and a sloop, and killed twelve Englishmen. The crew