Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman is one of America's most prolific and acclaimed novelists, whose fiction blends realism with elements of magic, folklore, and the supernatural. Born in New York City in 1952, she grew up on Long Island, studied at Adelphi University, and received her MA in Creative Writing from Stanford University. She has published over thirty novels across four decades. Hoffman's bestselling works include Practical Magic (adapted into a beloved film), The Dovekeepers, The Marriage of Opposites, and The World That We Knew. Her fiction is characterised by its lyrical prose, its strong female characters, and its exploration of love, loss, and transformation — often with a touch of enchantment that elevates ordinary life into something luminous. Angel Landing is an early novel that demonstrates her gift for finding magic in everyday circumstances. She has been compared to Gabriel García Márquez for her magical realism and to Anne Tyler for her understanding of family dynamics. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers fiction that inhabits a space between the real and the marvellous, where love and loss take on mythic proportions while remaining achingly human.