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 major film starring Sandra Bullock, Aidan Quinn and Nicole Kidman), Local Girls, The River King (also filming now), Blue Diary, The Probable Future and Blackbird House. She lives in Massachusetts.
"""Alice Hoffman is erotic and romantic, funny and clever and humane"" The Times ""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 ""Like her contemporaries, Carol Shields and Alice Munro, Hoffman has an acute eye for detail - Hoffman writes with heartbreaking clarity"" The Times ""[Hoffman] does it beautifully, composing a lyrical tale that does not waster a single word, a shamelessly heart-breaking story that will leave barely a dry eye in the house"" -- Lesley McDowell Independent on Sunday ""Enchanting"" Sunday Times"