Great product!</br></br>Product Description</br></br><b><b>??[A] delicious fantasy of witchcraft and love in a world where gardens smell of lemon verbena and happy endings are possible.???<i>Cosmopolitan</i></b><br><br>The Owens sisters confront the challenges of life and love in this bewitching novel from <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Alice Hoffman.</b><br><br>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 as well: as children?? the sisters were forever outsiders?? taunted?? talked about?? pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery?? with their musty house and their exotic conconctions"r crowd of black cats. But all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape. <br><br>One will do so by marrying?? the other by running away. But the bonds they share will bring them back?almost as if by magic...<br><br><b>??Splendid...<i>Practical Magic</i>?is one of [Hoffman's] best novels?? showing on every page her gift for touching ordinary life as if with a wand?? to reveal how extraordinary life really is.??<i>?Newsweek</i>?<br><br></b><p>?</p><p>?</p><br><b><i><br></i></b></br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>For most adults?? fairy tales are among the childish things we've put  away. Alice Hoffman?? however?? feels differently. <I>Practical Magic</I> starts out as a tale of Gillian and Sally Owens?? two orphaned girls whose aunts are witches--of a mild sort. For the past two centuries?? Owens women have been blamed for all that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town?? ever since their ancestor arrived?? rich?? independent?? and soon accused of theft: "ay?? a farmer winged a crow in his cornfield?? a creature who'd been stealing from him shamelessly for months. When Maria Owens appeared the very next morning with her arm in a sling and her white hand wound up in a white bandage?? people felt certain they knew the reason why."e aunts are daily ostracized by the same upstanding citizens who sneak to their house at night for mag