Alice Hoffman Practical Magic (1995)
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No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

— Alice Hoffman on Childhood

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Alice Hoffman

About Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman (born March 16, 1952) is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships.