Below we ask Hoffman a few questions about the book and afterward share the opening pages.Įnchanted Living: When you wrote Practical Magic, did you plan to do a series?Īlice Hoffman: I never planned to write a series. Now she’s penned a third novel in the Owens universe-Magic Lessons, out in October 2020-this time going back to the day of the clan’s matriarch, Maria Owens, who was charged with witchery in Salem for loving the wrong man back in 1680. The witch is not a mother or a daughter or a queen, but she’s our sister, a soul sister who resides deep inside each of us.” Yes! Plus Hoffman celebrated the witch generally and how “mythic stories and fairy tales remind us of a time when women refused to conform to society’s ideas of what they should be.
We shared an excerpt from the book and all manner of Hoffman-esque wonders, including recipes for tipsy chocolate cake and midnight margaritas, a checklist for living like the aunts, an original fairy tale by Hoffman with accompanying knitting pattern by Lisa Hoffman, a broom tutorial, and, of course, many many spells. We’re huge fans of Alice Hoffman and Practical Magic here, and we were thrilled to do a whole Practical Magic–themed issue two years ago to celebrate Hoffman’s prequel Rules of Magic, which came out in autumn 2018 and told the backstory of everyone’s favorite magical aunts.
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