Here on Earth

Name: Here on Earth
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.74 (35 reviews)
Author: Alice Hoffman
ISBN: 9781441807380

Author: Alice Hoffman

Narrator: Susan Ericksen

Unabridged: 8 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 05/29/2009

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

March Murray, along with her fifteen-year-old daughter, Gwen, returns to the small Massachusetts town where she grew up to attend the funeral of Judith Dale, the beloved housekeeper who raised her. After nearly twenty years of living in California, March is thrust into the world of her past. She finds that Mrs. Dale knew more of life than March could have ever suspected; that her brother Alan, whose tragic history has left him grief-stricken, has turned to alcohol as his only solace; and that Hollis, the boy she once loved, is the man she can't seem to stay away from. Here on Earth is the dramatic and lyrical account of the joys of love, as well as the destruction that love can release. Erotic, disturbing, and compelling, this is without a doubt Alice Hoffman's most unforgettable novel. "[Hoffman is] a dreamy and mesmerizing storyteller." - The New Yorker

About Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman is the bestselling author of nearly twenty acclaimed novels beloved by teens and adults, including Aquamarine and Practical Magic, both made into major motion pictures, as well as The Foretelling, Green Angel, The Ice Queen, and Here on Earth (an Oprah Book Club selection). She has also written the highly praised story collections Local Girls and Blackbird House. The author lives outside of Boston.

Reviews

Goodreads review by karen on April 19, 2019

fulfilling book riot's 2018 read harder challenge task #13: an oprah book club selection extry points given to me, by me, for choosing a book that i have owned for more than a year. it has been a long time since i have given a book a two-star rating, but this book earned it. i’m not someone who takes......more

Goodreads review by Zoe on April 09, 2008

Loved, loved, loved, LOVED it!!!! Ok so if this book was food, it would be a hot fudge brownie with caramel sauce - really, really good, at first comforting, but then it makes you kind of sick. Now this isn't a book for everyone, not everyone can stomach so much passion and long lost love. I, on the......more

Goodreads review by Joe on September 09, 2008

i may have become a snob after reading so many important books in the past three years,but this writing is terrible. if i were to count the cliches hoffman uses ,i wouldn t be able to follow the narrative. after i read that she was imitating WURTHERING HEIGHTS, i decided i had a duty to finish the......more

Goodreads review by Bodosika on September 14, 2016

Alice Hoffman weaves an interesting tale,though my first book by the author and though I rated it 3stars,I will like to read another of her novel.......more

Goodreads review by Judy on June 28, 2019

This is a dark romance. A woman goes back to her home town for a funeral, taking her teenage daughter with her. The woman comes back into contact with an old lover who had a strange hold over her when she was younger. It's an oddly compelling story.......more