Magic Lessons Av Alice Hoffman

<B>The extraordinary and enchanting novel tracing a centuries-old curse back to its beginning from the author of PRACTICAL MAGIC and THE DOVEKEEPERS</B><BR/><BR/> For centuries, the women of the Owens family have been cursed: any man who loves an Owens woman will die.<BR/><BR/> It begins with a baby abandoned in a snowy English field in the 1600s. Gentle Hannah Owens takes the baby in, and as the child grows, Hannah teaches little Maria about the 'Unnamed Arts'. Maria has a gift for them – a gift that may well prove her undoing.<BR/><BR/> When Maria is abandoned by the man she loves, she invokes the curse that will haunt her family for centuries. Because magic has rules, and they must be obeyed.<BR/><BR/><BR/><B>PRAISE for ALICE HOFFMAN</B><BR/><BR/>‘Beautiful, harrowing, a major contribution to twenty-first century literature’<BR/><B>Toni Morrison</B><BR/><BR/>‘I am still reeling from <I>The Dovekeepers </I>– from the history Alice H

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