The third angel by alice hoffman6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() However, where she feels she is turning to ice, the man burns. It was about a woman who got struck by lightning who has a love affair with another lightning survivor. The first Alice Hoffman book I read was Ice Queen. Precocious, impatient, wise beyond her years, Lucy becomes a go-between for two star-crossed lovers and then holds herself agonisingly responsible for what happens. Even before that, the seeds of tragedy are sown in the Fifties, when twelve-year-old Lucy first visits London and the same hotel. Back in the Swinging Sixties, the bridegroom's conventional English mother, Frieda, behaves in a wholly unconventional way, and the ghosts of that era still haunt all their lives and a Knightsbridge hotel. Their mother's illness cast a shadow over their childhood, and both Madeline and Allie are still searching for something missing in their lives. Unravelling the years from the present to the 1950s, The Third Angel is a compelling novel, set mainly in London, about girls and women who make the wrong choices and have to live with the sometimes unbearable consequences.The Third Angel opens in London in the present day, when an envious sibling comes to her sister's wedding. ![]() This haunting, poignant and addictive story travels effortlessly across three generations and through time. ![]()
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