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Amazon.com ReviewFor most adults, fairy tales are among the childish things we've put away. Alice Hoffman, however, feels differently. Practical Magic starts out as a tale of Gillian and Sally Owens, two orphaned girls whose aunts are witches--of a mild sort. For the past two centuries, Owens women have been blamed for all that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town, ever since their ancestor arrived, rich, independent, and soon accused of theft: "And then one day, a farmer winged a crow in his cornfield, a creature who'd been stealing from him shamelessly for months. When Maria Owens appeared the very next morning with her arm in a sling and her white hand wound up in a white bandage, people felt certain they knew the reason why." The aunts are daily ostracized by the same upstanding citizens who sneak to their house at night for magical love cures. To the sisters they are for the most part benevolently absent, though their bell, book, and candle routine makes life a torment for Gillian, beautiful and blonde and lazy, and Sally, who's all too responsible. But when one of the aunts' cures works too well, ending as a curse, the dangers of real love become all too clear. In Hoffm
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- Author
- Alice Hoffman
- Publisher
- Berkley Books
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780425152492
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance
- Rating
- 3.8 / 5 (35,478 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Practical Magic (2003)
- Practical magic. Practical Magic (1995)
- Practical Magic (2002)
- Da Magia A Seduc ʹa O (1999)
- Practical Magic (1995)
- Practical magic (1996)
- Practical Magic : The Beloved Novel of Love, Friendship, Sisterhood and Magic (2017)
- Practical magic. Practical Magic (2003)
- BOOK TO SCREEN CLUB. Practical magic (1995)
- BOOK TO SCREEN CLUB. Practical magic (2017)
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