Here On Earth

By: Alice Hoffman

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Paperback | 4 September 1998 | Edition Number 1

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304 Pages

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2 x 13.1 x 20

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'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.

Industry Reviews

"There is something irresistible about the novels of Alice Hoffman. Her themes of love, marriage, family and friendship are reassuringly familiar and her style agreeably evocative...Her stories have a quality of mystery and even darkness that puts a fresh spin on the commonplace, and at its very best can make the reader look at life from a fresh angle. If I could see things through Hoffman's eyes, I'm convinced life would be richer and more interesting... Here On Earth is a wonderful piece of storytelling" * Literary Review * "Hoffman is shrewd and witty about the networks of gossip and affection in town, and she evokes place superbly... spellbinding" * Sunday Times * "Imagine Wuthering Heights set in a small New England town during the last 30 years. The characters escape not to wild moors but marshes haunted by foxes and souls of drowned men-compelling" * Independent * "Wuthering Heights meets The Horse Whisperer... riveting and memorable" * Mail on Sunday * "A gripping novel that evokes the tensions of small-town life" * Elle *

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