Practical Magic - Tapa blanda

"A great atmospheric storyteller... Her books are a real pleasure" (Kate Atkinson Independent)

"Like her contemporaries, Carol Shields and Alice Munro, Hoffman has an acute eye for detail... [she] writes with heartbreaking clarity" (The Times)

"Alice Hoffman is simply brilliant" (Daily Mail)

Sisters Gillian and Sally Owens were brought up by their two elderly guardian aunts in a world of spells and exotica. As the magical charm of their childhood wears away, they escape from this mystical mayhem - one by running away, the other by marrying.

Many years go by before strange circumstances thrust them together again, and once more they are in a place that blends the mundane and mysterious, the familiar and fantastic. Three generations of Owens women are brought together in an experience of unexpected insight and revelation, teaching all of them that such perceptions are rare and wonderful and - to be sure - practical.