Practical magic
by Alice Hoffman
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Practical Magic is a tale of two sisters, Gillian and Sally Owens, brought up by their two elderly guardian aunts in a world of spells and exotica from which they eventually escape - one by running away, the other by marrying - but which never escapes from them.
Many years go by before strange circumstances thrust them together again, and again they are in a world that blends the mundane and the mysterious, the familiar and the fantastic, the normal and the numinous. Three generations of Owens women are then united in an experience of unexpected insight and revelation, teaching all of them that the perceptions provided by what is called the magical are rare and wonderful endowments.
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Fiction, Women in fiction, Women, Witches, Witches in fiction, Massachusetts in fiction, Witchcraft, Fantasy fiction, Occult fiction, Witchcraft in fiction, Paranormal fiction, Large type books, Fiction, fantasy, paranormal, Fiction, occult & supernatural, Fiction, family life, Sisters, fiction, Massachusetts, fiction, Fiction, family life, general, WiccansPlaces
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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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