The Third Angel - Alice Hoffman Audiobook

Written by Alice Hoffman
Read by Nancy Travis
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date: April 8, 2008
Duration: 07:45:06

A magical and stunningly original story that charts the lives of three women in love with the wrong men….

Headstrong Madeleine Heller finds herself hopelessly attracted to her sister’s fiancé. Frieda Lewis, a doctor’s daughter and a runaway, becomes the muse of an ill-fated rock star. And beautiful Bryn Evans is set to marry an Englishman while secretly obsessed with her ex-husband. 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.

Brilliantly 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.

“The bewitching author Alice Hoffman has written another work of startling lyrical beauty about the alchemical nature of love and about loss, choices, and consequences. The novel follows the intergenerational links among three women, bestowing layers of truth, and acts of bravery and betrayal, with a liberal dusting of the supernatural. Set primarily in London in the present on the advent of a wedding, the story shifts back in time twice to reveal the ultimate catalyst that brings about each woman’s destiny. Hoffman’s fairy tale of doomed, misguided love advances toward a crescendo of healing and hope. Promising wonder, Nancy Travis’s clear enunciations bridge the thin boundary between reality and the dream life. Her expressive and modulated delivery is the enchanting vessel for Hoffman’s luminous prose”….AudioFile

The book has no chapters but a running narrative in Three Parts: The Heron’s Wife-1999, Lion Park-1966, and The Rules of Love-1999.