Encountering Hollis again makes March acutely aware of the choices that she has made, and the choices everyone around her has madeincluding Mrs. When Hollis left her after a petty fight, March waited for him three long years, wondering what she had done wrong. Yet March and Holliss passionate love was hardly a normal sibling relationship. Marchs father had taken the teenaged Hollis, an abandoned child, and the product of a series of detention homes, into his house as a boarder, and treated him like a son. Yet returning to her hometown also brings her back to Hollis, Marchs former soul mate and lover. After nearly twenty years of living in California, March Murray, along with her fifteen-year-old daughter, Gwen, returns to the sleepy Massachusetts town where she grew up to attend the funeral of Judith Dale, the beloved housekeeper who raised her. In Here on Earth, the darker, obsessive side of love is revealed in all of its power, and with all the havoc it wreaks. Fear brings whipping winds, a malevolent spirit causes lilac bushes to achieve monstrous proportions, and love turns the air sweet and golden, melts butter, and makes everyone giddy. in Hoffmans universe, all boundaries between inner and outer realms are erased. Fear brings whipping winds, a malevolent spirit causes lilac bushes to achieve monstrous propor In a review of Hoffmans previous novel, Practical Magic, Booklist wrote, magic, fantasy, and full-tilt love-at-first-sight have figured in all of Hoffmans sexy, funny, and endearing novels. In a review of Hoffmans previous novel, Practical Magic, Booklist wrote, magic, fantasy, and full-tilt love-at-first-sight have figured in all of Hoffmans sexy, funny, and endearing novels.

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