Magic Lessons is a celebration of life and love and a showcase of Alice Hoffman's masterful storytelling. And it's is here that she learns the rules of magic and the lesson that she will carry with her for the rest of her life. 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. Hannah recognizes that Maria has a gift and she teaches the girl all she knows. Under the care of Hannah Owens, Maria learns about the Unnamed Arts. 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. In an unforgettable 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.
This prequel follows her life from when, as a baby, she was found by Hannah Owens in a. The curse that fosters angst in the lives of characters we meet in Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic was spoken from the gallows in Salem in 1686 by their ancestor, Maria Owens. Any reader craving a dose of the impossible will be spellbound by this tender, powerful book.Magic Lessons: A Prequel to Practical Magic Alice Hoffman € 17.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 2-3 working days. Magic Lessons is a prequel in Alice Hoffman’s Practical Magic series. Magic Lessons is a universal tale about love and survival. But you definitely don’t have to have read those books to be riveted by Maria’s story.
It’s a prequel to Hoffman’s bestselling Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic, and it showcases the same seamless blend of magic and reality. The prose is so lyrical it feels like an incantation, and Hoffman makes a distant historical moment seem as real and immediate as the present day.
And voilà: the story of Maria Owens, a young witch whose quest for justice takes her into the dangerous world of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where she lays down a curse that will stalk her family for generations. Combine them in the cauldron of 17th-century America (maybe, say, the Salem witch trials?). If Magic Lessons were a potion, its recipe might look something like this: Start with equal parts family saga, feminist creed, and love story. I also love brilliant genre fiction and complicated female characters-so basically, Alice Hoffman’s new novel, Magic Lessons, had me at hello. I’ll happily spend hours discussing the movements of the zodiac, and I never met a tarot deck I didn’t want to own.
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