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Skylight Confessions - Alice Hoffman


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Skylight Confessions - Alice Hoffman

 
Description: ISBN 0701179015 / Author: Alice Hoffman / Genre: Fiction

Newest Review: ... refusing to admit she may have made a mistake with her move, Arlyn throws herself into her life with an increasingly distant ... more

 ... husband and her beloved children, hoping one day they will all escape. She begins an affair with the window cleaner but puts her children first. We later meet Meredith who is strangely drawn to the family and lives for a while with them in the glass house, and tries to help Arlyn’s children. The oldest, Sam, has particularly lost his way, getting involved in drugs, whilst is young sister worships him from afar, struggling in her relationship with her father and step-mother. The third part is about Arlyn’s da...more

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Premium Review Skylight Confessions - Alice Hoffman: A Glassy Read (632 words)
by - written on 09/11/07 (Very useful, 150 readings)
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I came across this book when it popped up on my book group’s reading list. A little bit of research showed that people had compared it to the Time Traveller’s Wife which I had loved, although such comparisons are not always a good thing as they lead to higher expectations followed by the inevitable disappointment. This is the first book I have read by Alice Hoffman. The book is unusual to some degree in that it does not have any chapters, however it is divided into three parts. Arlyn, our heroine of the first part, grew up in a remote town with her father and upon his death saw the arrival of stranger John Moody as a sign of her destiny and she ...  Read the complete review

 

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