Alice Hoffman

As children, sisters Gillian and Sally were forever outsiders in their small New England town, teased, taunted and shunned for the air of magic that seems to sparkle in the air around them....

The lives of four sensuous, bold and remarkable women intersect in the year AD 70, in the desperate days of the siege of Masada....

In this prequel to Practical Magic, we meet the Aunts: sisters Frances and Jet, and Vincent, their brother. Their mother knew they were unique: red-haired Franny, who could commune with birds; shy, beautiful Jet, who knows what others are thinking; and charismatic Vincent....

Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris....

In this haunting short story of loyalty and betrayal, a young woman in early 1900s Massachusetts discovers that in navigating her treacherous coming-of-age, she must find her voice first....

Isabel Gibson has all but perfected the art of forgetting. She’s a New Yorker now, with nothing left to tie her to Brinkley’s Island, Maine. Her parents are gone, the family bookstore is all but bankrupt, and her sister, Sophie, will probably never speak to her again....

This fierce and beautiful story charts the histories of two women: Rae, young, unmarried, and far from home, awaits the birth of her first child. Lila, a fortune-teller with no interest in the future....

When Teresa was a little girl, she dreamed of dark-eyed, fearless heroes on white horses who would sweep her away.....

Beginning on the night of the Grand Illumination, a festival of lanterns held each summer on Martha's Vineyard, this novel is a modern chronicle of a marriage....

Fifteen years ago, Alice Hoffman received a diagnosis that changed everything about the life she'd been living....

The tale of a man and a woman, an activist and a therapist, so consumed with helping others that they are in danger of failing in their duty to themselves....

Told in alternating voices, these stories are funny and lyrical, disturbing and healing, each a lesson in survival, a reminder of the ties of blood, and the power of friendship....

The matriarch of a Long Island clan with a stubbornly suicidal son and a defiant, restless granddaughter, Esther has hired a Russian landscaper to watch over the family....

When Ethan Ford fails to show up for work on a brilliant summer morning, none of his neighbors would guess that he has been running from his past....

The Red Garden introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of Blackwell, Massachusetts....

Nora Silk doesn't really fit in on Hemlock Street, where every house looks the same. She's divorced. She wears a charm bracelet and high heels and red toreador pants....

For more than a century, the small town of Haddan, Massachusetts, has been divided, as if by a line drawn down the center of Main Street....

March Murray, along with her 15-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....

Headstrong Madeleine Heller finds herself hopelessly attracted to her sister’s fiancé. Frieda Lewis, a doctor’s daughter and a runaway, becomes the muse of an ill-fated rock star. And beautiful Bryn Evans is set to marry an Englishman while secretly obsessed with her ex-husband....

Alice Hoffman introduces a lonely outsider who wants desperately to belong....