Ebook {Epub PDF} Faithful by Alice Hoffman

 · Faithful by Alice Hoffman is a novel that follows a young woman, Shelby Richmond, through her slow, incremental recovery from a traumatic experience. Shelby and her best friend Helene Boyd were involved in a life-changing car accident the February before they were to graduate from a Long Island high school/5. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Hoffman, Alice. Faithful. Simon and Schuster, This novel opens with the image of memorial candles being lit along the side of a highway and a girl named Shelby Richmond barely surviving her life as a .  · Alice Hoffman’s latest novel Faithful focuses on Shelby Richmond and the painful and emotional journey that she takes after a car accident leaves her best friend Helene brain dead. Shelby, who was driving the car that night, comes away from the accident relatively unscathed, and so is wracked by tremendous guilt that she has, in essence, killed her friend.4/5.

I want to thank Netgalley, Simon Schuster, and Alice Hoffman for sending me this E-ARC of Faithful. In Exchange I will be giving an honest review. This novel was realeased on Novmeber 1st. Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage of Opposites and The Dovekeepers comes a soul-searching story about a. Faithful- the latest novel by Alice Hoffman. A few weeks ago my friend and I had the opportunity to attend a lecture by author Alice Hoffman.. (This is the same friend who recommended Girl Underwater this past spring). Our local library regularly hosts authors for lectures, but I had never attended one before. In the book Faithfull, Alice Hoffman tells the gut-wrenching story of Shelby Richmond. She is the driver of the car involved in a terrible accident. Her best friend is the passenger and is critically injured. Shelby is physically ok but emotionally broken. Guilt-ridden, she withdrawals, and the story unfolds.

Faithful by Alice Hoffman is a novel that follows a young woman, Shelby Richmond, through her slow, incremental recovery from a traumatic experience. Shelby and her best friend Helene Boyd were involved in a life-changing car accident the February before they were to graduate from a Long Island high school. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Hoffman, Alice. Faithful. Simon and Schuster, This novel opens with the image of memorial candles being lit along the side of a highway and a girl named Shelby Richmond barely surviving her life as a depressed hermit in her childhood home. Hoffman waves her wand over the pages to cast a spell of love, loss, family, coming-of-age, forgiveness, and redemption. The extraordinary way in which she crafts character, her keen eye for detail around New York City, and her undeniable gift for modern-day fairy tales make her a surefire bet in the industry.