The Third Angel is all about love and betrayal, hope and misery, happiness and sadness that haunts around and inside the Lion Park Hotel as ghosts shouting and screaming in madness.
Critical Analysis of the Novel: Alice Hoffman has intelligently interlocked three stories together in a single book, though each story sounds about a different individual but somehow all the three characters of this novel are cleverly linked with one another. The novel revolves around the sweetness of love and the sheer bitterness of heartbreak filled with a triumph of hope that makes every individual hopeful for a bright sunny day after a dark stormy night. Half-heartedly Lucy attends the wedding with no joy, unhappy face and an unrest soul. At the tender age of 12, Lucy was forcibly pulled to attend the wedding of her stepmother’s sister. Precocious, impatient, wise beyond her years, Lucy becomes a go-between for two star-crossed lovers and then holds herself agonisingly responsible for what happens.The third story is about Maddy’s mother Lucy. Even before that, the seeds of tragedy are sown in the Fifties, when twelve-year-old Lucy first visits London and the same hotel. Back in the Swinging Sixties, the bridegroom’s conventional English mother, Frieda, behaves in a wholly unconventional way, and the ghosts of that era still haunt all their lives and a Knightsbridge hotel. Their mother’s illness cast a shadow over their childhood, and both Madeline and Allie are still searching for something missing in their lives.
The Third Angel opens in London in the present day, when an envious sibling comes to her sister’s wedding. Unravelling the years from the present to the 1950s, The Third Angel is a compelling novel, set mainly in London, about girls and women who make the wrong choices and have to live with the sometimes unbearable consequences.
This haunting, poignant and addictive story travels effortlessly across three generations and through time.
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