# Paperback: 336 pages
# Publisher: Berkley (July 1, 1999)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0425169693
# ISBN-13: 978-0425169698
I have never read Alice Hoffman’s work before, so I’m not at all familiar with it. But… I hated this book! The main character, March, is one of the weakest, most selfish characters I have ever come across in a novel. I just wanted to shake her and tell her to get over it already! The only reason I gave it one star is because I thought that the subplot with the daughter was interesting and the only reason I even finished the book (aside from hoping that maybe, just maybe, March would wake up and stop being so idiotic!) was to see what happened to her.
Synopsis
From bestselling author Alice Hoffman comes Here on Earth, 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.