The children demand to know who they are and cannot pass up an invitation to Susanna’s aunt Isabelle’s house on Magnolia Street in Massachusetts. However, this backfires, as ornery Frances has a special relationship with birds, sensitive Jet can read others’ thoughts, and dashing Vincent cannot help performing magic tricks. Burke-Owens, aim to raise their three children entirely without magic. Susanna and her psychiatrist husband, Dr. This will ensure that she escapes the Owens family curse, which brings death to those who are beloved by an Owens woman. Susanna Owens, living in 1950s New York, has attempted to escape her family legacy by denying her magical abilities and marrying a man she respects rather than one she loves. This study guide uses the Simon & Schuster Kindle edition, published in 2017. She also enjoyed the experience of “interlocking nostalgias this book explores and provokes” with regard to the Owens aunts’ past and memories of childhood reading (El-Mohtar).
‘“ Rules of Magic’ Blends the Charm of the Familiar with New Enchantments.” NPR, 2017). While El-Mohtar was occasionally frustrated that the newer novel contradicts elements of Practical Magic and that a reconciliation of “the differences was sometimes distracting,” she admired Hoffman’s prose, which is “as tender, dreamy and sweet as ever, laced with the sting of vinegar and broken glass” (El-Mohtar, Amal. Given the gap between their publications, readers such as NPR reviewer Amal El-Mohtar experience a return to their reading selves at an earlier stage of life.
Hoffman wrote The Rules of Magic 22 years after Practical Magic owing to readers’ inquiries about what happened to the Owens women and the desire to be steeped further into their world.
Following the book’s publication, Hoffman’s desire to explore the Owens women’s world further resulted in Magic Lessons (2020), a prequel to the prequel, detailing 17th-century ancestor Maria Owens’s story, and The Book of Magic (2021), a sequel to Practical Magic. The book achieved both commercial success and renown, becoming an instant New York Times bestseller and a Reese’s Book Club pick. The Rules of Magic narrates the youth of Frances and Jet, the aunts whom Practical Magic protagonists Gillian and Sally are sent to live with, in addition to that of their brother, Vincent.
It forms part of the four-part Practical Magic series of books, which tell the story of the magically gifted Owens family and the curse that binds them and their lovers over successive generations. American writer Alice Hoffman wrote The Rules of Magic (2017) as the prequel to her acclaimed 1995 novel Practical Magic.
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