Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Overview… a precocious and mature young witch who lives with her two aunts in New Salem, Massachusetts. Sally just wants one simple thing: to overcome her family’s curse. Her mother cast a spell that ensured that any man who falls in love with an Owens woman would be doomed to die. In order to avoid heartbreak, Sally has cast a counter-spell in order to ensure that she will never find a man for herself, and hence risk a deadly heartbreak of her own.
Personality…. responsible and warm-hearted. Sally is the more sensible of the two Owens sisters. While her sister Gillian tends to be more vivacious and wild, Sally prefers simple, quiet, domestic pleasures. She is a loving sister who just wants the best for her quirky family of witches.
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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.
