Blackbird House

Blackbird House is a novel by Alice Hoffman, published by Doubleday in 2004.[1][2][3]

First edition

Plot summary

Surrounded by fields of sweet peas and fruit vines in rural Massachusetts sits Blackbird House, a haunting house to the women who live in her. A raging storm in 1778 sees John Hadley and his sons lost at sea. From then, the lives of the inhabitants are tangled together, until present day when the history of the house, its ghosts and the tragedies yet to come arrive at a dramatic climax.

gollark: Technically, computers probably can't run on alternating current.
gollark: I plug in my laptop most of the time, and it still has 97.7% battery health apparently.
gollark: I don't know, discharging it is what causes the actual battery health decrease.
gollark: Maybe you've been treating it badly.
gollark: Regular computers can sometimes stay on during a very brief power outage, because their power supplies have capacitors in them for mysterious electrical engineering reasons.

References
  1. Showalter, Elaine (2004-08-14). "Learning to live with loss". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  2. "'Blackbird House' by Alice Hoffman". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  3. "Summary/Reviews: Blackbird House /". www.buffalolib.org. Retrieved 2016-03-05.


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