Skylight Confessions
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:7th Feb '08
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
A compelling novel about three generations of a family haunted by an obsessive love, from the author of Practical Magic and Here on Earth.
On the night that Arlyn Singer's father dies, she is certain her destiny will find her.
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.
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 Telegraph *
Alice 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 Mail *
A 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 Out *
A magical, haunting read, full of hidden passions, heartbreak and ghosts * Glamour *
The dream-like nature of the narrative is well constructed and oddly plausible -- Ludovic Hunter-Tilney * Financial Times *
Hoffman 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 * Scotsman *
Skylight 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 Supplement *
Fans of The Time Traveller's Wife will love this... this is a magical, heartbreaking book * Easy Living magazine *
Alice Hoffman is my favourite writer -- Jodi Picoult
ISBN: 9780099488842
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 17mm
Weight: 194g
272 pages