The Probable Future
by Alice Hoffman | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: Global Overview for this book
ISBN: Global Overview for this book
Registered by zimort of Gjøvik, Oppland fylke Norway on 7/24/2010
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I bought this on a holiday in Sweden a wile back. I have now read it and I liked it. I have not read anything by Hoffman earlier, maybe I should read something else by the same author.
From Amazon:
When the women in the Sparrow family reach thirteen, they develop a unique ability. In young Stella's case, the gift, which is both a blessing and a curse, is the ability to see a person's probable future. Stella foresees a gruesome murder, and tells her charming, feckless father about it, but it is too late - the murder has already been committed and suspicion falls on him.
Hoffman unlocks the caskets of family life and the secret history of a community in this magical story about young love and old love, about making choices - usually the wrong ones - about foresight and consequences, all suffused with the haunting scent of roses and wisteria, and the hum of bees on a summer evening.
From Amazon:
When the women in the Sparrow family reach thirteen, they develop a unique ability. In young Stella's case, the gift, which is both a blessing and a curse, is the ability to see a person's probable future. Stella foresees a gruesome murder, and tells her charming, feckless father about it, but it is too late - the murder has already been committed and suspicion falls on him.
Hoffman unlocks the caskets of family life and the secret history of a community in this magical story about young love and old love, about making choices - usually the wrong ones - about foresight and consequences, all suffused with the haunting scent of roses and wisteria, and the hum of bees on a summer evening.
This was send to Canada as a RABCK earlier to day.
Thank you so much for this RABCK, zimort--and for the lovely postcard! I appreciate your generosity.
This was an intriguing story about a family of women, each of whom develop some kind of gift, such as being able to see other people's dreams or other people's deaths.
I have offered this book in bookstogive's General Literature VBB.
I have offered this book in bookstogive's General Literature VBB.
Journal Entry 5 by jumpingin at Little Free Library #10089, North Slocan St. near Eton St. in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada on Monday, April 29, 2019
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