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Jennifer Ehle
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Length
12 hours 52 minutes
Language
English
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“Such a perfect ending to this story I have loved so much. Jennifer Ehle captures the Owens women perfectly. Hoffman's ambling prose feels like a spell being woven, and by the end, you feel like you are the culmination of something wonderful; that you are magical too.”
— Charity • Schuler Books
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“This was a cute wrap up (though at this point, Hoffman could keep dropping installments for decades more to huge reception!) of the Practical Magic series. Though sad, I liked that we got a conclusion on Jet and Franny. Their lives have been drawn out over so many books that they felt ancient to me and I liked being able to see them at peace. I also liked to see the family bonding that happened and to conclude the long arc of the Owens family curse at last. I like reading these books every October because they do elicit a fun witchy vibe that puts you in a perfect Halloween mood. Jennifer Ehle was a fantastic narrator for this installment as well, giving a measured and mature voice to Jet, Franny, Sally, and Gillian as well as now-grown-up Kylie and Antonia.”
— Kimi • Buttonwood Books and Toys
“Hoffman certainly knows how to enchant” (The New York Times Book Review) in this breathtaking conclusion to the Practical Magic series—a spellbinding and bewitching novel that asks how far will you go to change your fate?
For over three-hundred years a curse has kept the Owens family from love—but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in danger—the curse is already at work.
A frantic attempt to save a young man’s life spurs three generations of the Owens women, and one long-lost brother, to use their unusual gifts to break the curse as they travel from Paris to London to the English countryside where their ancestor Maria Owens first practiced the Unnamed Art. The younger generation discovers secrets that have been hidden from them in matters of both magic and love by Sally, their fiercely protective mother. As Kylie Owens uncovers the truth about who she is and what her own dark powers are, her aunt Franny comes to understand that she is ready to sacrifice everything for her family, and Sally Owens realizes that she is willing to give up everything for love.
A heartfelt and satisfying conclusion to a beloved series, The Book of Magic celebrates mothers and daughters, sisters and brothers, and anyone who has ever been in love.
Alice Hoffman is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, including The Book of Magic, Magic Lessons, The World That We Knew, Practical Magic, The Rules of Magic (a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick), the Oprah’s Book Club Selection Here on Earth, The Red Garden, The Dovekeepers, The Museum of Extraordinary Things, The Marriage of Opposites, and Faithful. She lives near Boston.