That is how you know you've left childhood behind—when you wish for time to go backward.
—Alice Hoffman in Here on Earth
About Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffman (born March 16, 1952) is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic,...