The Probable Future: A Novel

by Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman’s most magical novel to date—three generations of extraordinary women are driven to unite in crisis and discover the rewards of reconciliation and love. 

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 on the future—a future that she might not want to see. 

In The Probable Future 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’s...Read more
  • ISBN10 0345455916
  • ISBN13 9780345455918
  • Publish Date 1 June 2004 (first published 1 June 2003)
  • Publish Status Inactive
  • Out of Print 22 January 2025
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Random House USA Inc
  • Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.