An instant NY Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club select from beloved author Alice Hoffman-the spellbinding prequel to Practical Magic.

Discover your magic.

For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the incorrect man.

Hundreds of years later, in NEW YORK in the cusp from the sixties, when depends upon is about to switch, Susanna Owens has learned that her 3 kids are dangerously unique. Difficult Franny, about The Rules of Magic: A Novel with pores and skin as pale as milk and blood reddish colored hair, timid and beautiful Jet, who can read various other people’s thoughts, and charismatic Vincent, who began looking for difficulty on the day he could walk.

From the start Susanna sets down rules for her children: No walking in the moonlight, zero red shoes, no wearing black, zero cats, no crows, zero candles, no books about magic. & most importantly, hardly ever, ever, fall in love. But when her children visit their Aunt Isabelle, in the tiny Massachusetts town where in fact the Owens family continues to be blamed for everything that has ever eliminated wrong, they uncover family members secrets and commence to understand the reality of who they are. However, the kids cannot get away love even if they try, simply as they cannot escape the pains of the human being heart. The two gorgeous sisters will grow up to become the memorable aunts in Useful Magic, while Vincent, their beloved brother, will keep an unexpected legacy.

Alice Hoffman delivers “fairy-tale guarantee with real-life struggle” (The New York Times Reserve Review) in a tale how the just remedy for getting human is to be true to yourself. Thrilling and exquisite, actual and fantastical, THE GUIDELINES of Magic is normally “amazing…the sort of publication you competition through, then pause in the last forty pages, savoring your final moments using the characters” (USA TODAY, 4/4 celebrities).