Practical Magic

Practical Magic

1995 • 286 pages

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Average rating3.5

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For more than two hundred years, the Owens women had been blamed for everything that went wrong in their Massachusetts town. And Gillian and Sally endured that fate as well; as children, the sisters were outsiders. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, but all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape. One would do so by marrying, the other by running away. But the bonds they shared brought them back-almost as if by magic...

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2 primary books4 released books

Practical Magic

Practical Magic is a 4-book series with 2 primary works first released in 1995 with contributions by Alice Hoffman.

Magic Lessons
The Rules of Magic
Practical Magic
The Book of Magic

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October 16, 2021

As usual with an Alice Hoffman book, I could barely put this one down. So lovely.

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