Alice Hoffman is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, including Magic Lessons, The World That We Knew, Practical Magic, The Rules of Magic, 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.
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Vendeur : Book Express (NZ), Shannon, Nouvelle-Zélande
Paperback. Etat : Very Good. 366 pages. From beloved author Alice Hoffman comes the spellbinding prequel to her bests eller, Practical Magic.Find your magic.For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for lo ving the wrong man.Hundreds of years later, in New York City at the cusp of the sixties, when the whole world is about to change, Susanna Owens knows tha t her three children are dangerously unique. Difficult Franny, with skin as pale as milk and blood red hair, shy and beautiful Jet, who can read other people? s thoughts, and charismatic Vincent, who began looking for trouble on the day he could walk.From the start Susanna sets down rules for her children: No w alking in the moonlight, no red shoes, no wearing black, no cats, no crows, no c andles, no books about magic. And most importantly, never, ever, fall in love. B ut when her children visit their Aunt Isabelle, in the small Massachusetts town where the Owens family has been blamed for everything that has ever gone wrong, they uncover family secrets and begin to understand the truth of who they are. B ack in New York City each begins a risky journey as they try to escape the famil y curse.The Owens children cannot escape love even if they try, just as t hey cannot escape the pains of the human heart. The two beautiful sisters will g row up to be the revered, and sometimes feared, aunts in Practical Magic, while Vincent, their beloved brother, will leave an unexpected legacy. Thrilling and e xquisite, real and fantastical, The Rules of Magic is a story about the power of love reminding us that the only remedy for being human is to be true to yoursel f. N° de réf. du vendeur 6962u
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Vendeur : Oak Books, Ouyen, VIC, Australie
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