Practical Magic

The Owens sisters confront the challenges of life and love in this riveting novel from New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman. For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate, too: as children, the sisters were always outsiders, mocked, talked about, singled out. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage whispers of witchcraft, with their musty house and exotic concoctions and multitude of black cats. But all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape. One will do so by getting married, the other by running away. But the bonds they share will bring them back together, almost as if by magic...