The Third Angel - Softcover

Hoffman, Alice

3.61

13,340 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0701182725 ISBN 13: 9780701182724

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 2008

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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...

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Review:

Alice Hoffman is my favourite writer (Jodi Picoult)

A great atmospheric storyteller . . . her books are a real pleasure (Kate Atkinson)

Like her contemporaries, Carol Shields and Alice Munro, Hoffman has an acute yet tender eye for detail (The Times)

THE THIRD ANGEL is brilliantly crafted, deeply moving, and utterly enchanting. I loved these characters for their complexity, their unpredictability and for the way they showed subtle and shifting nuance in human nature. One of the best things about Alice Hoffman's writing is that she grounds you in detail and also frees your imagination to soar to places it has never been--often simultaneously. Reading her is immensely satisfying--and addictive! (Elizabeth Berg, Author Of The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted)

Gently gets under your skin. You'll be hooked (Daily Mail)

Book Description:

Everyday tragedy comes face to face with the magical and inexplicable in this haunting, poignant, addictive novel, which travels effortlessly across three generations and through time.

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