Here on Earth Summary
Alice Hoffman

Here on Earth Summary

Here on Earth is an unforgettable novel by writer Alice Hoffman. In this novel, March Murray returns to her hometown after a nineteen year absence to bury the woman who was her surrogate mother. March intends to only remain for a few days, but those days turn into months when March is drawn back into an obsession she thought had ended more than twenty years before. Here on Earth is a novel about obsession, about pain, and about the devastation one person can bring upon on the people he loves.

March and her daughter, Gwen, return to March's hometown to bury Judith Dale, the housekeeper who was a surrogate mother to March after her own mother's death. March is haunted by the past from the moment she arrives. Inside her father's old house, March finds memories in every corner of the boy she once loved.... View more of the Here on Earth Summary