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  • Location: New England, Massachusetts (film - Washington state)
  • Submitted: 26th December 2018
Practical Magic
  • Author/Guide: Alice Hoffman
Practical Magic

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1990s: Two sisters,shunned because of their magical powers take two very different paths in life

  • ISBN: 978-1471169199
  • Genre: Fantasy/Sci Fi, Ghost/supernatural
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As children, sisters Gillian and Sally were forever outsiders in their small New England town, teased, taunted and shunned for the air of magic that seems to sparkle in the air around them. All Gillian and Sally ever wanted was to get away.

And eventually they do – one marries, the other runs as far from home as she can manage.

Years later, however, tragedy will bring the sisters back together. And they’ll find that no matter what else may happen, they’ll always have each other.

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  • America/ USA - New England - WA
  • A: WA - The Owen's House
  • B: WA - San Juan Island
  • C: WA- Sally's Shop
  • D: WA - Whidbey Island
  • E: WA - Coupeville

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Massachusetts (New England)

Their aunt lives on fictional Maria’s Island in Massachusetts where they girls spend the summer. The island is of course fictional and the film version was shot in and around Washington and the outlying islands.

The town where the girls live with their aunt. They struggle to find their way in life and how to work with the suspicion from everyone else that they are different.

“For more than 200 years we Owens women have been blamed by everything that’s ever gone wrong in this town.”

The magical legacy of the island and the Owen family

“They feared her because she had a gift, a power that has been passed on to you children. She had the gift of magic. And it was this very gift that saved her life. She was banished to this very island. With her unborn child growing inside her belly. She waited for her lover to rescue her. But he never came. No one came. In a moment of despair, she cast a spell upon herself that she would never again feel the agony of love. But as her bitterness grew the spell turned into a curse. A curse on any man who dared love an Owens woman.”

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Destination: New England, Massachusetts  film – Washington state  Author/Guide: Alice Hoffman  Departure Time: 1990s

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