Alice Hoffman is the bestselling author of many successful novels and screenplays, including Here on Earth (Oprah Book Club Choice in 1998), Illumination Nights, Turtle Moon, Practical Magic (made into a recent major film), Local Girls, The River King and Blue Diary. She lives in Massachusetts.
Magical and entertaining; at times positively bewitching... That Hoffman is a highly capable storyteller is in no doubt. Hoffman's latest novel possesses the irresistible quality of a compelling fairytale for adults * Scotland on Sunday * A great atmospheric storyteller... Her books are a real pleasure * Kate Atkinson * Like her contemporaries, Carol Shields and Alice Munro, Hoffman has an acute yet tender eye for detail... Hoffman writes with heartbreaking clarity * The Times * An enchanting page-turner of a novel... Charming, utterly absorbing and very enjoyable, this book will leave you wanting move * Big Issue * Alice Hoffman is a daring and able writer; she plots conjunctions of mundane and magical events with such ease that the reader never doubts her word * New Yorker *