Alice Hoffman is one of our most beloved writers. Alice Hoffman is my favorite writer. Practical Magic and Aquamarine were both bestselling books and Hollywood movies. Here on Earth was an Oprah Book Club selection. Now, in The Third Angel, Hoffman weaves a magical and stunningly original story that charts the lives of three women in love with the wrong men: Headstrong Madeleine Heller finds herself hopelessly attracted to her sisters fiance. Her novels have received mention as notable books of the year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, and People magazine, and her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the New York Times, The Boston Globe Magazine, Kenyon Review, Redbook, Architectural Digest, Gourmet, and Self. And beautiful Bryn Evans is set to marry an Englishman while secretly obsessed with her ex-husband. Frieda Lewis, a doctors daughter and a runaway, becomes the muse of an ill-fated rock star. Brilliantly evoking Londons Kings Road, Knightsbridge, and Kensington while moving effortlessly back in time, The Third Angel is a work of startling beauty about the unique, alchemical nature of love. At the heart of the novel is Lucy Green, who blames herself for a tragic accident she witnessed at the age of twelve, and who spends four decades searching for the Third Angel-the angel on earth who will renew her faith. 2008