![]() Magic Lessons is a "heartbreaking and heart-healing" ( BookPage) celebration of life and love and a showcase of Alice Hoffman's masterful storytelling. ![]() Played for laughs-successfully. And it's here that she learns the rules of magic and the lesson that she will carry with her for the rest of her life. 1,162 ratings68 reviews The popular Big Anthony tries once again to use Strega Nona’s magic with the usual hilarious and disastrous results. ![]() Here she invokes the curse that will haunt her family. When Maria is abandoned by the man who has declared his love for her, she follows him to Salem, Massachusetts. It is here that she learns her first important lesson: Always love someone who will love you back. Under the care of Hannah Owens, Maria learns about the "Nameless Arts." Hannah recognizes that Maria has a gift and she teaches the girl all she knows. Where does the story of the Owens bloodline begin? With Maria Owens, in the 1600s, when she's abandoned in a snowy field in rural England as a baby. ![]() After reading Rules of Magic last year, I fell in love with her prose and the Owen family. As soon as I read she was writing a prequel Practical Magic explaining the origin of the Owen curse, the countdown to publication was on. ![]() In this " bewitching" ( The New York Times Book Review) novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source, beloved author Alice Hoffman unveils the story of Maria Owens, accused of witchcraft in Salem, and matriarch of a line of the amazing Owens women and men featured in Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic. My first witchy book review is Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman. ![]()
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