num_pages: 272
description: March returns to her childhood home with her teenage daughter, Gwen, to attend the funeral of the housekeeper who brought her up. Unexpectedly, though, the visit rekindles in March a passion for an earlier unrequited love. Overwhelmed by her emotions, she abandons her marriage and life commitments in pursuit of the affair. But her lover is a man of strange secrets with a violent streak, and she soon discovers him to be a Bluebeard with a sinister collection...Here on Earth is both a darkly compelling love story and a fantastically detailed portrait of small-town life, rife with gossip, tensions and murky pasts.An Oprah Winfrey Book Club Choice.
language: English
title: Here on Earth
titlecomplete: Here on Earth
characters: Hank Cooper, March Murray, Hollis
genres: Romance, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism, Contemporary, Drama, Adult, Novels, Fiction, Chick Lit, Adult Fiction
ratings_count: 47993
places: Jenkintown
publisher: Vintage