As Kylie Owens uncovers the truth about who she is and what her own dark powers are, her aunt Franny comes to understand that she is ready to sacrifice everything for her family, and Sally Owens realizes that she is willing to give up everything for love.Ī heartfelt and satisfying conclusion to a beloved series, The Book of Magic celebrates mothers and daughters, sisters and brothers, and anyone who has ever been in love. When I opened the first page, I wasn’t ready to say goodbye to these witchy women I got to know in the classic Practical Magic. Alice Hoffman concludes the story of the Owens family with a joyous cry of a novel. The younger generation discovers secrets that have been hidden from them in matters of both magic and love by Sally, their fiercely protective mother. Alice Hoffman is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, including Magic Lessons, The World That We Knew, Practical Magic, The Rules of Magic, the Oprah’s Book Club selection. The Book of Magic is a book about belief in the most ephemeral thingslove, magic, and hope. Jet is not the only one in danger - the curse is already at work.Ī frantic attempt to save a young man’s life spurs three generations of the Owens women, and one long-lost brother, to use their unusual gifts to break the curse as they travel from Paris to London to the English countryside where their ancestor Maria Owens first practiced the Unnamed Art. The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman (9781398509955) - PaperBack - Fantasy.

The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. The Book of Magic from Dymocks online bookstore. The book was the first in a popular series that included the prequels The Rules of Magic (2017) and Magic Lessons (2020) and the sequel The Book of Magic (2021). “Hoffman certainly knows how to enchant” ( The New York Times Book Review ) in this breathtaking conclusion to the Practical Magic series - a spellbinding and bewitching novel that asks: How far will you go to change your fate?įor over 300 years, a curse has kept the Owens family from love - but all of that is about to change. Practical Magic (1995 film 1998) is about two sisters trying to leave behind their family’s tradition of witchcraft.

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