Author: Alice Hoffman, (born March 16, 1952) is an American novelist and young-adult and children’s writer, best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was made into a 1998 film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships.

Publisher/Date: Franklin Library, PA 1992

Signed First Edition

Format/Condition: Full leather bound book with gilt decorative covers, a.e.g., marbled end papers, & ribbon is in very good plus condition: small blemishes on gold-gilt textblock. No bookplate, not embossed, nor are there any other signs of previous ownership. A gorgeous volume.

Description: Turtle Moon transports the reader to Verity, Florida, a place where anything can happen during the month of May, when migrating sea turtles come to town, mistaking the glow of streetlights for the moon. Lucy Rosen, a transplanted New Yorker, is determined to start a new life in Verity, along with her twelve-year-old son, Keith.

But neither Lucy nor Keith could begin to imagine what the town holds in store for them. Everything they’ve ever hoped for, everything they’ve feared, begins to happen. When Julian Cash, Verity-born and fierce enough to paralyze bees with fright, enters their lives, nothing will be the same — for Lucy and her son, or for Julian.