# The Probable Future

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- Authors: [Alice Hoffmanová](https://www.bookquiver.com/alice-hoffmanova)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2004-08-05
- Genres: Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general

## Description

When the women in the Sparrow family reach thirteen, they develop a unique ability. In young Stella's case, the gift, which is both a blessing and a curse, is the ability to see a person's probable future. Stella foresees a gruesome murder, and tells her charming, feckless father about it, but it is too late - the murder has already been committed and suspicion falls on him. Hoffman unlocks the caskets of family life and the secret history of a community in this magical story about young love and old love, about making choices - usually the wrong ones - about foresight and consequences, all suffused with the haunting scent of roses and wisteria, and the hum of bees on a summer evening.

## Editions

### The Probable Future

- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4644-825-0
- Published: 2013-01-31
- Language: en_GB

### The Probable Future

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9945-386-4
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2004-08-05
- Language: en_GB

### The Probable Future

- Publisher: Ballantine Books
- ISBN: 978-03-4545-591-8
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2004-06-01
- Language: en_US