Seventh Heaven Seventh Heaven

Seventh Heaven

A Novel

    • 3.9 • 253 Ratings
    • $12.99

Publisher Description

A bestselling novel of suburban daydreams and the magic of one woman who makes her own way in the world 

On Hemlock Street, the houses are identical, the lawns tidy, and the families traditional. A perfect slice of suburbia, this Long Island community shows no signs of change as the 1950s draw to a close—until the fateful August morning when Nora Silk arrives.  

Recently divorced, Nora mows the lawn in slingback pumps and climbs her roof in the middle of the night to clean the gutters. She works three jobs, and when her casseroles don’t turn out, she feeds her two boys—eight-year-old Billy and his baby brother, James—Frosted Flakes for supper. She wears black stretch pants instead of Bermuda shorts, owns twenty-three shades of nail polish, and sings along to Elvis like a schoolgirl.  

Though Nora is eager to fit in on Hemlock Street, her effect on the neighbors is anything but normal. The wives distrust her, the husbands desire her, and the children think she’s a witch. But through Nora’s eyes, the neighborhood appears far from perfect. Behind every neatly trimmed hedge and freshly painted shutter is a family struggling to solve its own unique mysteries. Inspired by Nora, the residents of Hemlock Street finally unlock the secrets that will transform their lives forever.  

A tale of extraordinary discoveries, Seventh Heaven is an ode to a single mother’s heroic journey and a celebration of the courage it takes to change.  

“A pleasure . . . Seventh Heaven is not only entertaining—it gives one new respect for tender suburban dreams.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review  

“Part American Graffiti, part early Updike . . . Simultaneously chronicles the coming of age of a group of teenagers in a Long Island town, and the gradual dissolution of their parents’ repressed, middle-class world . . . A parable about changing times and changing values.” —The New York Times 

“A consummate joy . . . Magical.” —The Washington Post Book World 

“Before you know it, you’re half in love with the ordinary people who inhabit this book; you’re seduced by their susceptibility to the remarkable.” —The New Yorker 

“A major accomplishment.” —The Boston Globe 

“Brilliant and astonishing . . . Suffused with magic. If ever a book deserved to be called ‘haunting,’ this is it.” —Cosmopolitan 

“Terrific . . . Seventh Heaven is one of those rare novels so abundant with life it seems to overflow its own pages.” —Newsweek 

Alice Hoffman was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island. She wrote her first novel, Property Of, while studying creative writing at Stanford University, and since then has published more than thirty books for readers of all ages, including the recent New York Times bestsellers The Museum of Extraordinary Things and The Dovekeepers. Two of her novels, Practical Magic and Aquamarine, have been made into films, and Here on Earth was an Oprah’s Book Club choice. All told, Hoffman’s work has been published in more than twenty languages and one hundred foreign editions. She lives outside of Boston.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2014
September 23
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
255
Pages
PUBLISHER
Open Road Media
SELLER
OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC
SIZE
2.9
MB

Customer Reviews

Perky too ,

Seventh Heaven

Although not my favorite of Hoffman’s , certainly up there with the good books in my library. One reviewer said there was no plot but I find that to be the beauty in her books. She is a scholar of human nature and behavior. This book is full of interesting and quirky people and every day life. It’s a fast read mostly because you won’t want to stop 😊

Mid it'd ,

Alice Hoffman rocks!!!

I don’t think there’s anything better than her books. Her writing style is absolutely unique and amazing. No one gets as deep into characters as she does. They come alive to me in ways I never imagined was possible.

Bad and mad ,

Never got good

So disappointing! The storyline never formed into anything interesting. I kept reading and thinking something interesting was going to change the direction. But like the nondescript, easy to get lost and lackluster neighborhood the charters live in, the story causes the same lost, lack of interest and energy for the reader.

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