Here on Earth (novel)

Here on Earth (novel)

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name = Here on Earth
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image_caption = Early hardback edition cover
author = Alice Hoffman
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Novel
publisher = Chatto and Windus
release_date = October 2 1997
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 272 pp (first edition, paperback)
isbn = ISBN 0-7011-6490-5 (first edition, paperback)
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"Here on Earth" is the 1997 novel by Alice Hoffman, and was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection.

"Here on Earth" is a spellbinding tale of love and obsession. After nearly twenty years of living in California, March Murray, along with her fifteen-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. Thrust into the world of her past, March slowly realizes the complexity of the choices made by those around her, including Mrs. Dale, who knew more of love than March could have ever suspected; Alan, the brother whose tragic history has left him grief-stricken, with alcohol his only solace; and Hollis, the boy she loved, the man she can't seem to stay away from. Erotic, disturbing, and compelling, "Here on Earth" is the dramatic and lyrical account of the joys of love, and the destruction love can release.The novel bears striking resemblance in plot and characters to the classic Emily Bronte novel, Wuthering Heights


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