Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Overview… a free-spirited witch who tends to use her magical powers a bit wantonly. Compared to her reserved sister Sally, “Gilly” as she’s known to her family, is impulsive and out of control. She’s spent her youth touring the United States and forming a series of romantic attachments in every city. Yet it is only when she meets a handsome man named Jimmy that she considers settling down. Though the rough ‘n tumble Jimmy may be too much for her to handle.
Personality… flightly, sensual, and beautiful. Gillian is a born-heartbreaker whose personality is far too big for her quiet hometown of New Salem, Massachusetts.
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Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With policeman Gary Hallet growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov—and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their family line.
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“[A] delicious fantasy of witchcraft and love in a world where gardens smell of lemon verbena and happy endings are possible.”—Cosmopolitan
The Owens sisters confront the challenges of life and love in this bewitching novel from New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman.
For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their musty house and their exotic conconctions and their crowd of black cats. But all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape.
One will do so by marrying, the other by running away. But the bonds they share will bring them back—almost as if by magic...
“Splendid...Practical Magic is one of [Hoffman's] best novels, showing on every page her gift for touching ordinary life as if with a wand, to reveal how extraordinary life really is.”—Newsweek
From the Trade Paperback edition.
