Press Reviews

• Amy Tan

  This is Alice Hoffman at her best, turning our eyes toward the ordinary surface of things to see the power that shimmers underneath

• Times Literary Supplement

  Hoffman's most beguiling fiction to date

• The Times

  We are in heaven, Seventh Heaven, when reading this novel

• New York Times

  Ms. Hoffman's own talent is neither questionable nor in any danger of fading. She has complete control over this bustling story, shuffling its many vignettes as cleverly as she captures the nuances of its many voices. Her narrative has a very satisfying shape, but it's equally satisfying in its details

• Newsweek

  Seventh Heaven confirms her place as one of the finest writers of her generation

• Time Magazine

  Stirring, stunning . . . By far (her) best book

• Washington Post Book World

  A consummate joy . . . Magical

• Cosmopolitan

  Brilliant and astonishing

• The New Yorker

  Hoffman is a dreamy and mesmerising storyteller . . . 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

• Kirkus Reviews

  Hoffman has the magic, and if she wants to tell us about once-upon-a-time in Levittown, she'll keep us hooked all the way to happily ever after