Practical Magic (edit title)

awelker edited the quotations of Practical Magic 13 days ago.

• Added a quotation: “Sometimes running away means you're headed in the exact direction”

Dana A edited the summary of Practical Magic 2 weeks ago.

• Practical Magic is a complex story focusing on Sally and Gillian Owens. After their parents died in a fire when they were little girls, they were sent to live with their two eccentric aunts, Frances and Jet, in a dramatic old house on Magnolia Street built centuries before by their ancestor, Maria Owens, an apparent witch.

  The girls live a life without rules, drinking soda for breakfast and never having to brush their teeth. But Gillian feels trapped, and when she's old enough, runs away with a boy who becomes her first husband out of many. Sally, meanwhile, only wants true love but is afraid that she'll end up like her mother and father - too in love to save themselves from the fire that killed them. But one day Sally meets Michael, the man of her dreams. She marries him and they have two children, Kylie and Antonia.

  But then tragedy strikes. When Michael dies, Sally blames herself, the aunts and the centuries-old curse that surrounds the women of her family. She takes the girls away, despite their protests, in the hope of giving them a normal life with rules and healthy dinners and clean teeth.

  Gillian, whom trouble seems to follow, comes to visit Sally at her new house on a balmy summer night with a surprise in her car, trouble up her sleeve and a detective following not far behind. She asks Sally for help cleaning up the mess she has made.

  The story is back-to-back magic and mystery, a fairy tale for grown-ups, with a dramatic ending that sees the magic that surrounds the family come to lend a hand.

Shelfari edited the description of Practical Magic Friday, July 31 2009.

• 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...

Shelfari edited the contributors of Practical Magic Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Alice Hoffman: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Practical Magic Thursday, July 16 2009.

• FOR more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in town.