Author:Alice Hoffman
On the night that Arlyn Singer's father dies, she is certain her destiny will find her. Then John Moody shows up at her door, with no inkling that the tall, red-haired girl he has asked for directions will haunt him for the rest of his life.
Years later, Arlyn is gone, leaving her children, Sam and Blanca, alone with their distant father in the glass house they have made their home. Meredith Weiss is drawn to the troubled family and sets out to try and save them. But will her devotion be enough to pull them back from the fate they seem to have chosen for themselves?
Visually stunning, frequently heart-wrenching
—— Daily TelegraphAlice Hoffman's novels are a beguiling mix of the ordinary and the extraordinary. Bitter everyday occurrences - broken marriages, disappointed lives - are transformed under her tender gaze into magical, heart-breaking fables... Hoffman acknowledges the weight of this pain in mesmerisingly graceful prose, while the spareness of her style allows for hope's infinite possibilities in even the most daunting of circumstances
—— Eithne Farry , Daily MailA novel that plays with the subconcsious, weaving together magic and myth and a kind of realism. Hoffman is an excellent storyteller with a beguilingly mystical bent
—— Time OutA magical, haunting read, full of hidden passions, heartbreak and ghosts
—— GlamourThe dream-like nature of the narrative is well constructed and oddly plausible
—— Ludovic Hunter-Tilney , Financial TimesHoffman is, in many ways, that much-misunderstood phenomenon: a novelist of ideas...This central idea of her work...is what makes the novels she has produced to date (every one a genuine page-turner) both more interesting and more rewarding than either Hollywood, or some critics, realise
—— John Burnside , ScotsmanSkylight Confessions leaves us sad, yet satisfied, as though we have eaten something bitter yet organic. The Greeks might have called the feeling catharsis...the Moodys are reminiscent of an ancient tragic house
—— Zoe Strimpel , Times Literary SupplementFans of The Time Traveller's Wife will love this... this is a magical, heartbreaking book
—— Easy Living magazineAlice Hoffman is my favourite writer
—— Jodi PicoultFriction is a bellow of rage and disgust at the eagerness with which the 21st century soul attenuates itself. That this trivia-obsessed, pornography-fraught and digitised-to-death world that we have made for ourselves can produce such high art, and with such slicing satirical humour, is one of the central paradoxes, and causes for celebration, of our age
—— Niall GriffithsNeill bucks the chick-lit trend with prose that's clever and endearing, and frazzled parents will love the way she nails the sticky, hair-pulling mania of domestic life
—— Washington PostA deftly executed domestic comedy
—— Boston GlobeHilarious . . . Plays with the chaos and comedy of 30-something metropolitan maternity and brings it to an unexpectedly moving conclusion
—— Anna Wintour , Vogue
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