This novel is a testament to the human spirit and to love rising from the ashes of war. PRAISE for ALICE HOFFMAN 'Beautiful, harrowing, a major contribution to twenty-first century literature' Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate in Literature, on The Dovekeepers 'I am still reeling from The Dovekeepers - from the history Alice Hoffman illuminates, from the language she uses to bring these women to life. This is the lesson that Maria will carry with her for the rest of her life, and pass on to her children and her children's children. Because magic has rules, and they must be followed. When Maria is abandoned by the man she loves, she invokes the curse that will haunt her family for centuries. Maria has a gift for them - a gift that may well prove her undoing. Under the care of gentle Hannah Owens, little Maria learns about the 'Unnamed Arts'. with a baby abandoned in a snowy English field in the 1600s. We discovered the tragedy of the Owens siblings in Rules of Magic. The extraordinary new novel from the author of PRACTICAL MAGIC and THE DOVEKEEPERS We first met the Owens in the glorious novel Practical Magic.
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