I'm not sure I've ever run into someone who's read both TWHF and Sandman before, much less loved them both. We are talking about Neil Gaiman's Sandman, correct?
ETA: Just checked your profile. Alice Hoffman is one of my favorite authors ever, along with Amy Tan. Not pure fantasy, but has some of the elements. I love, love, love Turtle Moon.
Definitely Neil Gaiman's Sandman!
Alice Hoffman's writing strikes me as so lyrical - it's beautiful. Even the way she describes death in Local Girls, is gorgeous, even though her books generally always make me cry.
I left C.S. Lewis off my favorites on my profile, I think. I need to change that - I named my youngest daughter Aravis - after Aravis in The Horse and His Boy from the Chronicles of Narnia. I read the books when I was 9 and my daughter was born when I was 32, so I think I can pretty fairly say that I am a lifelong C.S. Lewis fan!