Practical Magic Tops Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under

Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations

The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill

and ceremonies

and arcane knowledge

shares her magical secrets with readers

Practical Magic Tops Alexia Tarabotti is laboring underBy Alice Hoffman A special 25th anniversary edition of the New York Times bestseller featuring a new introduction by the author. 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