The Rules Of Magic

"This standalone prequel to Practical Magic is mostly set in the 1960s and features the lives of the Owens siblings – Frances, Bridget and Vincent. Coming of age on the Upper East Side with fashionable parents suspicious of the extraordinary, they explore and develop their powers together in secret, all the while resisting – and failing to resist – falling in love, with catastrophic consequences. Alice Hoffman’s prose is as tender, dreamy and sweet as ever, laced with the sting of vinegar and broken glass, and The Rules of Magic blends the tug of the familiar with the enchantment of the new into a lovely, bittersweet brew."