The Probable Future (2003) (edit title/settings)

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• Jenny Sparrow: Is the mother of Stella. Jenny is hard on herself, as her mother was hard on her following her father's death at ten years. She is independent, stubborn, a stoic, a perfectionist. Jenny's gift is dreamer other people's dreams.
• Stella: Stella is Jenny's daughter. She is recently thirteen. Her gift is the ability to see how a person will die. Her gift is the reason her father is suspected of murder.
• Matt Avery: Add a description of this character.
• Liza Hull: Liza is the owner of the restaurant that Jenny works in after her return to her hometown.
• Will Avery
• Rebecca
• Hap Stewart
• Brock Stewart
• Jimmy Elliot
• Elinor
• Juliet Aronson
• Henry Elliot
• Catherine
• Cynthia Elliot
• Mrs. Gibson
• Roston
• R. Stewart
• Saul
• Mrs. Ehrland
• Ruth
• Miss Hewitt
• Sam Dewey
• Iser
• Charles Hathaway
• Samuel
• Harmon
• David
• Monroe
• Lincoln

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• “"No matter what she did she was bombarded by two simultaneous images- whatever she was currently doing, washing the dishes in the old soapstone sink, for instance, was overlaid with something she did years earlier, climbing out the window above the same sink at midnight to meet him."”

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• Cake House
• Boston
• Unity
• Cambridge
• North Arthur
• Massachusetts
• Hamilton Hospital
• Main Street
• Town Hall
• New York

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1. Alice Hoffman (Author)

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• Dewey: 813.54

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( H ) › Hoffman, Alice
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers › Suspense
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

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