false 14834067 840883 2170979 0307393852 9780307393852 489 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/21/979/2170979-m-1255792210.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/21/979/2170979-s-1255792210.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2170979.The_Third_Angel 3.43 1805 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. High-powered New York attorney Maddy Heller arrives in 1999 London having had an affair with Paul, her sister Allie's fiancé; she must now cope with the impending marriage, and with Paul's terminal illness -- which echoes the girls' mother's cancer during their childhood. 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. The narrative then shifts further back, to 1952 and to Maddy and Allie's future mother, Lucy Green. A bookish 12-year-old wise beyond her years, Lucy sails with her father and stepmother from New York to London for a wedding. There, she becomes an innocent catalyst to a devastating event involving a love triangle. Hoffman interweaves the three stories, gazing unerringly into forces that cause some people to self-destruct and others to find inner strength to last a lifetime. (Publishers Weekly)]]> 3502 3.58 34012 4415 2008 0 0 false Thu Feb 07 11:41:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 07 11:41:03 -0800 2008