Alice Hoffman

Everyone needs a little magic in their lives... The Rules of Magic is the long-awaited prequel to Practical Magic, and a New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon's Book Club pick!In this sparkling prequel we meet the Aunts from Practical Magic, sisters Frances and Jet and Vincent, their brother. From the beginning their mother Susanna knew they were unique: Franny with her skin as pale as milk and blood red hair, who could commune with birds; Jet as shy as she is beautiful, who knows what others are thinking, and Vincent so charismatic that he was built for trouble. Susanna needed to set some rules of magic: no walking in the moonlight, no red shoes, no wearing black, no cats, no crows, no candles and certainly, absolutely, no books about magic

Writing at the height of her powers, Alice Hoffman conjures three generations of a family haunted by love. John is cool, practical and deliberate - the polar opposite of dreamy Arlyn - yet the two are drawn powerfully together even when it is clear they are bound to bring each other grief. Their marriage traces a map no one should follow, leading them and their children to a house made of glass in the Connecticut countryside, to the avenues of Manhattan, and to the blue waters of Long Island Sound. Glass breaks, love hurts, and, like all families, John and Arlyn's makes its own rules. Ultimately, it falls to their grandson, Will, to walk a path of ruin and redemption in order to solve the emotional puzzle of his family.

Description On the night that Arlyn Singer"s father dies, she is certain her destiny will find her. Some hours later a young man shows up at her door. Lost in a strange town, John Moody is an architectural student, serious, reserved, and deliberate. And he has no inkling that the tall, red-haired girl whom he has asked for directions will haunt him for the rest of his life. John Moody takes Arlyn to live in a house made of glass, the Glass Slipper. Her life there is not the romantic destiny she envisaged. She dreams of escape for herself and her children, Sam and Blanca, but her eventual escape, too, is not the one she dreamed of. Years later, Arlyn is gone, and Meredith Weiss arrives at the Moody house. Sam, now a teenager, is careening down a path of drug-fuelled self-destruction, while John Moody is tormented by visions of a red-haired woman in white. Meredith sets out to try to save this troubled family. But will her devotion be enough to pull them back from the fate they seem to have cho sen for themselves? Glass breaks, love hurts, and families make their own rules and have their own secrets. Told with Alice Hoffman"s signature grace and originality, "Skylight Confessions" is a shimmering, powerful story of passion, heartbreak and families. Alice Hoffman, geboren 1952 in New York, aufgewachsen auf Long Island. Studium in Stanford. Sie wurde von "Entertainment Weekly" in die Liste der "100 kreativsten Persönlichkeiten der Unterhaltungsbranche" aufgenommen; ihre Romane standen auf den amerikanischen Bestsellerlisten. Heute lebt die Autorin der Nähe von Boston.

El lenguaje de Arnelle narra la vida de las hermanas Story, Elv, Meg y Claire, que viven felices en Long Island con su madre, Annie, que está divorciada. Pero el fatídico encuentro de Elv y Claire con un siniestro desconocido cambiara sus vidas para siempre. Elv cada dia esta mas y mas sumergida en el cuento de hadas que ha inventado. Annie no comprende el sufrimiento de su hija y, cuando por fin se da cuenta, ya es demasiado tarde. Elv tendra que vivir con las decisiones que ha tomado y las tragicas consecuencias de sus acciones afectaran a toda su familia. ¿Que hace una madre cuando uno de sus hijos pierde su camino? ¿Como salva a una hija sin sacrificar a las demas? ¿Hasta que punto puede llegar el amor, y hasta donde puede llevarte? Estas son las preguntas que plantea esta luminosa novela. El lenguaje de Arnelle es un relato sobre el paso de la adolescencia a la edad adulta, pero es tambien una cronica familiar, y una historia de amor y deseo. Es un retrato de todo lo extraordinario y cotidiano que viven las hermanas al convertirse en mujeres. Hay pocos escritores que capten el poder de redencion del amor como Alice Hoffman hace. Con El lenguaje de Arnelle nos ofrece un maravilloso relato que nos hara mas conscientes de la fragilidad y la belleza de vivir.

This haunting, poignant and addictive story travels effortlessly across three generations and through time. Unravelling the years from the present to the 1950s, The Third Angel is a compelling novel, set mainly in London, about girls and women who make the wrong choices and have to live with the sometimes unbearable consequences. The Third Angel opens in London in the present day, when an envious sibling comes to her sister's wedding. Their mother's illness cast a shadow over their childhood, and both Madeline and Allie are still searching for something missing in their lives. Back in the Swinging Sixties, the bridegroom's conventional English mother, Frieda, behaves in a wholly unconventional way, and the ghosts of that era still haunt all their lives and a Knightsbridge hotel. Even before that, the seeds of tragedy are sown in the Fifties, when twelve-year-old Lucy first visits London and the same hotel. Precocious, impatient, wise beyond her years, Lucy becomes a go-between for two star-crossed lovers and then holds herself agonisingly responsible for what happens...

Alice Hoffman teje una historia mágica e imponentemente original que traza la vida de tres mujeres enamoradas del hombre equivocado: Headstrong Madeleine Séller se encuentra irresistiblemente atraída por el novio de su hermana; Frieda Lewis, hija de un doctor y fugitivo, se convierte en la musa de una malograda estrella del rock; y la hermosa Bryn Evans quiere casarse con un ingles mientras esta secretamente obsesionada por su exmarido. El corazon de la novela es Lucy Green, que se culpa de un accidente de la que fue testigo a la edad de doce años.

From the beloved, bestselling author of THE DOVEKEEPERS, a mesmerizing new novel about the electric and impassioned love between two vastly different souls in New York during the volatile first decad

A haunting and emotionally satisfying novel from a much-loved and critically acclaimed author, which weaves fairy tale and gritty realism together to dazzlingly effect. 'The Story Sisters' charts the lives of three sisters -- Elv, Claire and Meg. Each has a fate she must meet alone: one on a country road, one in the streets of Paris, and one in the corridors of her own imagination. Inhabiting their world are a charismatic man who cannot tell the truth, a neighbor who is not who he appears to be, a clumsy boy in Paris who falls in love and stays there, a detective who finds his heart's desire, and a demon who will not let go. What does a mother do when one of her children goes astray? How does she save one daughter without sacrificing the others? How deep can love go, and how far can it take you? At once a coming-of-age tale, a family saga, and a love story of erotic longing, 'The Story Sisters' sifts through the miraculous and the mundane as the girls become women and their choices haunt them, change them and, finally, redeem them.

Gorod Blekuell v shtate Massachusets. Kogda-to davno neskolko liudei prishli siuda, na pustuiu zemliu, chtoby vozdelyvat ee, stroit doma i rozhat detei. Sredi nikh byla i Khelli Bredi - otvazhnaia molodaia zhenshchina, kotoraia ne boialas ni metelei, ni medvedei. Tolko blagodaria ei pervye poselentcy ne zamerzli nasmert i ne umerli s goloda. Khelli davno umerla, a Blekuell po-prezhnemu sushchestvoval. V gorod prishli novye liudi: zhenshchina, kotoroi prishlos sovershit prestuplenie, chtoby spasti svoego rebenka i sokhranit sobstvennyi rassudok, tainstvennyi neznakometc, kotoryi poselilsia v lesu i skryvalsia ot vsekh, i mnozhestvo drugikh, ne menee interesnykh i tainstvennykh personazhei. V zhizni kazhdogo iz nikh ochen vazhen magicheskii Krasnyi sad, takoi krasnyi, slovno v ego pochve betsia zhivoe, napolnennoe kroviu serdtce. Takoi sad, gde rastut tolko krasnye plody, est tolko zdes, v Blekuelle, i tolko zdes s liudmi mogut proiskhodit stol neobychnye sobytiia.

Coney Island, 1911: Coralie Sardie is the daughter of a self-proclaimed scientist and professor who acts as the impresario of The Museum of Extraordinary Things, a boardwalk freak show offering amazement and entertainment to the masses. An extraordinary swimmer, Coralie appears as the Mermaid alongside performers like the Wolfman, the Butterfly Girl,and a 100 year old turtle, in her father's "museum". She swims regularly in New York's Hudson River, and one night stumbles upon a striking young man alone in the woods photographing moon-lit trees. From that moment, Coralie knows her life will never be the same.The dashing photographer Coralie spies is Eddie Cohen, a Russian immigrant who has run away from his father's Lower East Side Orthodox community. As Eddie photographs the devastation on the streets of New York following the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, he becomes embroiled in the mystery behind a young woman's disappearance and the dispute between factory owners and labourers. In the tumultuous times that characterized life in New York between the world wars, Coralie and Eddie's lives come crashing together in Alice Hoffman's mesmerizing, imaginative, and romantic new novel.

"Alice Hoffman can write about love like no-one else" Jodi Picoult Twig lives in a remote area of town with her mysterious brother and her mother, baker of irresistible apple pies. A new girl in town might just be Twig's first true friend, and ally in vanquishing an ancient family curse. A spellbinding tale of modern folklore set in the Berkshires, where rumours of a winged beast draw in as much tourism as the town's famed apple orchards.

Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl growing up on Long Island until one night a terrible road accident brings her life to a halt. While her best friend Helene suffers life-changing injuries, Shelby becomes crippled with guilt and is suddenly unable to see the possibility of a future shed once taken for granted.But as time passes, and Helene becomes an almost otherworldly figure within the town, seen by its inhabitants as a source of healing, Shelby finds herself attended to by her own guardian angel. A mysterious figure she half-glimpsed the night of the car crash, he now sends Shelby brief but beautiful messages imploring her to take charge of her life once more . . .What happens when a life is turned inside out? When you lose all hope and sense of worth? Shelby, a fan of Chinese food, dogs, bookshops, and men she should stay away from, captures both the ache of loneliness and the joy of finding oneself at last. From the bestselling author of The Dovekeepers comes this spellbinding, poignant and life-affirming story of one womans journey towards happiness and the power of love, family and fate.

From the bestselling author of The Dovekeepers comes a spectacularly imaginative and moving new novel in the vein of The Night Circus that has been acclaimed by Jodi Picoult as 'truly stunning: part love story, part mystery, part history, and all beauy'. New York City, 1911. Meet Coralie Sardie, circus girl, web-fingered mermaid, shy only daughter of Professor Sardie and raised in the bizarre surroundings of his Museum of Extraordinary Things. And meet Eddie Cohen, a handsome young immigrant who has run away from his painful past and his Orthodox family to become a photographer, documenting life on the teeming city streets. One night by the freezing waters of the Hudson River, Coralie stumbles across Eddie, who has become enmeshed in the case of a missing girl, and the fates of these two hopeful outcasts collide as they search for truth, beauty, love and freedom in tumultuous times.

She was disappearing inch by inch, vanishing into thin air, and then one day a postcard arrived ...There was no return address, no signature, only a scrawled message: Say something. Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl growing up on Long Island until one night a terrible road accident brings her life to a halt. While her best friend Helene suffers life-changing injuries, Shelby becomes overwhelmed with guilt and is suddenly unable to see the possibility of a future she'd once taken for granted. But as time passes, and Helene becomes an almost otherworldly figure within the town, seen by its inhabitants as a source of healing, Shelby finds herself attended to by her own guardian angel. A mysterious figure she half-glimpsed the night of the car crash, he now sends Shelby brief but beautiful messages imploring her to take charge of her life once more ...What happens when a life is turned inside out? When you lose all hope and sense of worth? Shelby, a fan of Chinese food, dogs, bookshops, and men she should stay away from, captures both the ache of loneliness and the joy of finding oneself at last. From the bestselling author of The Dovekeepers comes this spellbinding, poignant and life-affirming story of one woman's journey towards happiness - and the power of love, family and fate. 'A great atmospheric storyteller ...Her books are a real pleasure' Kate Atkinson 'Alice Hoffman reminds us with every sentence that words have the power to transport us to alternate worlds' Jodi Picoult