The Probable Future

Publisher Marketing: Women of the Sparrow family have unusual gifts. Elinor can detect falsehood. Her daughter, Jenny, can see people's dreams when they sleep. Granddaughter Stella has a mental window to the future a future that she might not want to see. In Alice Hoffman's latest tour de force, this vivid and intriguing cast of characters confronts a haunting past and a very current murder against the evocative backdrop of small-town New England. By turns chilling and enchanting, "The Probable Future" chronicles the Sparrows' legacy as young Stella struggles to cope with her disturbing clairvoyance. Her potential to ruin or redeem becomes unbearable when one of her premonitions puts her father in jail, wrongly accused of homicide. Yet this ordeal also leads Stella to the grandmother she was forbidden to meet, and to an historic family home full of talismans from her ancestors." Review Citations: Kliatt 07/01/2004 pg. 19 (EAN 9780345455918, Paperback) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 374 (EAN 9780345455918, Paperback) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 456 (EAN 9780345455918, Paperback) Kliatt 01/01/2004 pg. 49 (EAN 9781590862698, Compact Disc) Library Journal 11/01/2003 (EAN 9781590862698, Compact Disc) Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2003 pg. 142 (EAN 9780375432163, Hardcover) Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/01/2003 pg. 66 (EAN 9780385507608, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2003 pg. 418 (EAN 9780385507608, Hardcover) Library Journal 03/15/2003 pg. 114 (EAN 9780385507608, Hardcover) Booklist 03/01/2003 pg. 1107 (EAN 9780385507608, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 05/05/2003 pg. 196 (EAN 9780385507608, Hardcover) - *Starred Review New York Times 07/06/2003 pg. 26 (EAN 9780385507608, Hardcover) School Library Journal 07/01/2003 pg. 152 (EAN 9780385507608, Hardcover) USA Today 07/10/2003 pg. 1 (EAN 9780385507608, Hardcover) People Weekly 08/11/2003 pg. 42 (EAN 9780385507608, Hardcover) SLJ's Best Books 12/01/2003 pg. 51 (EAN 9780385507608, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2003 pg. 28 (EAN 9780385507608, Hardcover) New York Times 07/18/2004 pg. 20 (EAN 9780385507608, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2004 pg. 86 (EAN 9780385507608, Hardcover) Library Journal 03/01/2003 (EAN 9780385507608, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2006 pg. 454 (EAN 9780385507608, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2007 pg. 766 (EAN 9780385507608, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 374 (EAN 9780385507608, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 456 (EAN 9780385507608, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Hoffman, Alice Alice Hoffman is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, including "The Marriage of Opposites", "Practical Magic", " The Red Garden", the Oprah's Book Club selection "Here on Earth", "The Museum of Extraordinary Things", and "The Dovekeepers". She lives near Boston. Contributor Bio:  Ericksen, Susan Susan Ericksen, an Audie Award and "AudioFile" Earphones Award winner, has recorded many audiobooks, including "Naked in Death" by J. D. Robb.