It isn’t the humidity, or even the heat, which is so fierce and sudden it can make grown men cry. People in Verity like to talk, but the one thing they neglect to mention to outsiders is that something is wrong with the month of May. Turtle Moon is set during the month of May in the eastern Florida town of Verity, a sweltering and extremely humid region bounded by swamp.

He is there for his still grieving older brother rather than anything else though. Turtle Moon does feature an angel – a ghost – little brother of one of the main characters, trapped in the tree where he died in a car crash. Most of her novels tend to feature ordinary people put into stressful or difficult situations and we see the reactions of the world around them, but she also often inserts just a little magic realism, which let me reassure those of you who may be put off by it, is often more of an extrasensory feel, rather than anything overtly fantastic. Hoffman is a prolific but always enjoyable author – I’ve read several others by her: her debut Property Of (pre-blog), The Ice Queen (wonderful!), The Story Sisters, The Museum of Extraordinary Things – but not her most famous novel Practical Magic, which was filmed with Nicole Kidman. She lives near Boston.Our theme for our August book had been a random one – ‘Turtle’! There were a few potential choices, including Russell Hoban’s Turtle Diary, and Terry Pratchett of course, but the book we finally picked was Alice Hoffman’s 1992 novel Turtle Moon. Praise for Turtle Moon 'Magnificent.'- The New York Times Book Review 'Hard to put down.full of characters who take hold of your heart.'- San Francisco Examiner 'Beautiful.'- Seattle Times 'Pure magic.'- San Francisco Chronicle 'A spectacular novel.'-Susan Isaacs, Washington Post Book World 'She is a born storyteller.and Turtle Moon is one of her best.'- Entertainment WeeklyĪbout 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. The story of a divorced woman, her disillusioned teenage son, and the events that change their lives in ways both simple and extraordinary, Turtle Moon follows their path, in a suspenseful, beautifully written story that confirms once again the exquisite talent of Alice Hoffman. When Keith Rosen runs away from his Florida home-inexplicably taking along a motherless baby-his mother is perplexed, terrified, and ultimately takes off on her own journey to find him.

Hoffman writes quite wonderfully about the magic in our lives and in the battered, indifferent world. Book Synopsis A 'uly original novel' ( Cosmopolitan) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic.

Turtle moon by alice hoffman