Alice Hoffman's Magical Feminism

The American novelist Alice Hoffman writes in a genre that might best be termed “magic feminism”. Women and the supernatural pervade her books and it is a recipe that over the course of 21 novels and three volumes of short stories has won her a voracious readership but not, however, universal critical acclaim. She is taking no chances with her latest book: The Dovekeepers, the work of five years, is an all-out attempt at literary seriousness.