Alice and The Green Man

By Constance Sprague

Newly divorced Alice Owens stumbles into the love of her life when the mysterious, immortal Green Man appears in her flowerbeds. She is not alarmed by his presence, but is astonished by his unique... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1484989309
• ISBN13: 9781484989302
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Not Your Ordinary Romance/Fantasy Novel

I don't usually read "Romance" novels, but I like Constance Sprague's work. In Alice and the Green Man, she takes the genre to a new level -- one that's hard to describe in a nutshell. Like Tall Order, her first book, the sex is wholesome and real, but the new Green Man book adds elements of ecological concern with a broader social scope to an excellent story on an individual level -- that of a woman who loves her children and the garden she's created, and is struggling to resolve the tangle of divorcing a husband and starting a new life. She embodies a truly "at heart" struggle to protect her beautiful garden (symbol anyone?) from the encroachments of "Java" Inc. bulldozers who are going to demolish it for the sake of yet another chain coffee shop. Add to that a dollop of Magic, an eternal "Green Man" from a timeless realm who learns what it is to be human, just as Alice learns how to tap into Eternity, and you've got a very original and pleasing "Alice and the Green Man." Definitely better than the run of the mill romance. Call me sentimental, but I love endings like this book's. (I won't spoil it for you.) I almost wish someone would make a movie of this, just so I could see the ending brought to life on screen.