About the Author

Alice Hoffman is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, including The Rules of Magic, Practical Magic, The Marriage of Opposites, The Red Garden, the Oprah’s Book Club selection Here on Earth, The Museum of Extraordinary Things, and The Dovekeepers. She lives near Boston.

Reviews

Praise for Blue Diary

“Hoffman ably sends her theme of loss and deception reverberating across several well-made subplots...fast-moving.”—The New York Times Book Review

“[Hoffman's] observations of the natural world are conveyed with gorgeous clarity and the supporting characters are roundly drawn...[Blue Diary] investigates the themes of devotion, betrayal, guilt, and forgiveness in trenchantly effective ways.”—Publishers Weekly

“A page-turner...hard to put down...even harder to forget.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“As suspenseful as it is lyrical and provocative.”—Booklist

Praise for Blue Diary

"Hoffman ably sends her theme of loss and deception reverberating across several well-made subplots...fast-moving."-The New York Times Book Review

"[Hoffman's] observations of the natural world are conveyed with gorgeous clarity and the supporting characters are roundly drawn...[Blue Diary] investigates the themes of devotion, betrayal, guilt, and forgiveness in trenchantly effective ways."-Publishers Weekly

"A page-turner...hard to put down...even harder to forget."-St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"As suspenseful as it is lyrical and provocative."-Booklist