

Alan Murray, March's older and lazier brother, resented the attention paid to Hollis by his father.

Hollis' arrival in the Murray home was not accepted by everyone. From the first moment she saw him, March claimed the boy as her own. Hollis was a street urchin, brought home by March's father when she was only eleven. Inside her father's old house, March finds memories in every corner of the boy she once loved. March is haunted by the past from the moment she arrives.

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. 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 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. In this novel, March Murray returns to her hometown after a nineteen year absence to bury the woman who was her surrogate mother. Here on Earth is an unforgettable novel by writer Alice Hoffman.
