The Probable Future
  • Published: 1 October 2004
  • ISBN: 9780099453864
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $28.99
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The Probable Future

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'Alice Hoffman is simply brilliant' Daily Mail

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.
  • Published: 1 October 2004
  • ISBN: 9780099453864
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $28.99
Categories:

About the author

Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman is the bestselling author of acclaimed novels, including Here on Earth (an Oprah Book Club selection), Practical Magic (a Hollywood film), The River King, Blue Diary, Turtle Moon, Skylight Confessions and most recently The Third Angel. Blackbird House was shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. She divides her time between Boston and New York City.

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Also by Alice Hoffman

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The Red Garden
The Brethren
Skylight Confessions
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Praise for The Probable Future

Magical and entertaining; at times positively bewitching... That Hoffman is a highly capable storyteller is in no doubt. Hoffman's latest novel possesses the irresistible quality of a compelling fairytale for adults

Scotland on Sunday

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... Hoffman writes with heartbreaking clarity

The Times

An enchanting page-turner of a novel... Charming, utterly absorbing and very enjoyable, this book will leave you wanting move

Big Issue

Alice Hoffman is a daring and able writer; she plots conjunctions of mundane and magical events with such ease that the reader never doubts her word

New Yorker