For more than two hundred years, the Owens women had been blamed for everything that went wrong in their Massachusetts town. And Gillian and Sally endured that fate as well; as children, the sisters were outsiders. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, but all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape. One would do so by marrying, the other by running away. But the bonds they shared brought them back-almost as if by magic...

A quiet evening and lots of time to lose in the pages.

Everything. The words moved smoothly from one to another. It was moving, touching and so much better than the movie.

I had to sit and bring myself back to the real world. I felt as if I had been pulled into another world.

Warm, happy, and at times very reflective of myself.

does a wonderful job.

I saw myself in these characters at differnt times. So much of myself infact I almost cried. I liked it and I will read it again. Hoffman's prose is wonderful as if she were painting the images in my mind. I doubt that I could find a way to express how wonderful this book is with the same magic that she had used to write it.

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