Susan Ericksen gives a captivating performance voicing three generations of Sparrow women. She gives the matriarch, Elinor, the authority and strength of a formidable New Englander. Granddaughter Stella has all the arch moodiness and determination to be expected of a teenager seeking the truth about her family's history. Erickson does justice to all the women and is particularly convincing portraying Jenny, the woman in the middle attempting to protect her daughter and find her own way in love. The special gifts of each woman, the ability to identify truth, share dreams, and predict destiny, are brought together in the setting Alice Hoffman is known for, a New England with a unique magical side. R.F. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine--
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Women of the Sparrow family have unusual gifts. Elinor can detect falsehood. Her daughter, Jenny, can see people's dreams when they sleep. Granddaughter Stella has a mental window to the future - a future that she might not want to see.
In Alice Hoffman's latest tour de force, this vivid and intriguing cast of characters confronts a haunting past - and a very current murder - against the evocative backdrop of small-town New England. By turns chilling and enchanting, The Probable Future chronicles the Sparrows' legacy as young Stella struggles to cope with her disturbing clairvoyance. Her potential to ruin or redeem becomes unbearable when one of her premonitions puts her father in jail, wrongly accused of homicide. Yet this ordeal also leads Stella to the grandmother she was forbidden to meet, and to an historic family home full of talismans from her ancestors.
