I wanted to be them, and I wanted their stories. I loved their comfort with each other, their confidence with magic, their authority, their power. The book focuses on Sally and Gillian as adult sisters, and on Antonia and Kylie, Sally's teenage daughters – but I always loved best the elderly aunts, Francis and Jet. The film gave me women loving and fighting with and for each other, in a house and garden (and kitchen) to spend the rest of my life lusting after the book gave me poetry, the names of flowers, and generations of Owens sisters. I loved both, talked passionately about how very different they were from each other, how glad I was that I'd seen the film first so as to appreciate it on its own terms. I saw Practical Magic the film when I was 14, a little while before I read Practical Magic the book. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Rules of Magic Author Alice Hoffman
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