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Here On Earth

Alice Hoffman

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English
Vintage
04 September 1998
'Hoffman is shrewd and witty about the networks of gossip and affection in town, and she evokes place superbly... spellbinding' - Sunday Times

March returns to her childhood home with her teenage daughter, Gwen, to attend the funeral of the housekeeper who brought her up. Unexpectedly, though, the visit rekindles in March a passion for an earlier unrequited love. Overwhelmed by her emotions, she abandons her marriage and life commitments in pursuit of the affair. But her lover is a man of strange secrets with a violent streak, and she soon discovers him to be a Bluebeard with a sinister collection...

Here on Earth is both a darkly compelling love story and a fantastically detailed portrait of small-town life, rife with gossip, tensions and murky pasts.

An Oprah Winfrey Book Club Choice.
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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   213g
ISBN:   9780099750819
ISBN 10:   0099750813
Pages:   304
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Recommended Age:   From 0 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Alice Hoffman is married with two sons and lives in Massachusetts.

Reviews for Here On Earth

Leaving her husband behind at home in California, March Murray travels east to their old hometown for a funeral and is drawn almost immediately into darkly obsessive unfinished sexual business with old flame Hollis. Meanwhile her wayward daughter and reluctant travelling companion Gwen, finds herself through her perfect love for a vicious old racehorse and struggles with her mother's apparent temporary insanity. Hoffman brilliantly evokes the eeriness of the frosty New England landscape and the sometimes welcome claustrophobia of small-town living as a backdrop to her network of troubled lives afflicted by love. (Kirkus UK)


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