A bookish 12-year-old wise beyond her years, Lucy sails with her father and stepmother from New York to London for a wedding. The narrative then shifts further back, to 1952 and to Maddy and Allie's future mother, Lucy Green. Hoffman then shifts to heady 1966 London and to Frieda Lewis, Paul's future mother, who falls for a doomed up-and-coming songwriter knowing he will break her heart. High powered New York attorney Maddy Heller arrives in 1999 London having had an affair with Paul, her sister Allie's fianc, she must now cope with the impending marriage, and with Paul's terminal illness which echoes the girls' mother's cancer during their childhood. In this elegant and stunning novel, veteran heartstring-puller Hoffman (Here on Earth Seventh Heaven) examines the lives of three women at different crossroads in their lives, tying their London-centered stories together in devastating retrospect. 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.īrilliantly evoking London’s King’s 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. And beautiful Bryn Evans is set to marry an Englishman while secretly obsessed with her ex-husband. Frieda Lewis, a doctor’s daughter and a runaway, becomes the muse of an ill-fated rock star. Headstrong Madeleine Heller finds herself hopelessly attracted to her sister’s fiancé. should bewitch old fans and new readers alike.”- People “Headstrong women, reckless love affairs and a liberal dusting of the supernatural are the pleasurable trademarks of an Alice Hoffman novel.

A magical and stunningly original story that charts the lives of three women in love with the wrong men from the bestselling author of Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, The Rules of Magic

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