Published: 2020, Simon and Schuster Genre: Fiction Themes: Witchcraft in the 17th Century, trials of witches, herbal remedies My rating (out of 5): ❤❤❤❤ In this book we have a good old fashioned story. Something you could read aloud to your Nana without having to skim over a single word. Hurrah! Set in the 1600s, this book is the prequal to Hoffman's previous novel, Practical Magic, but it stands up very well on its own and it is not necessary to read the books in the order they were written. The story begins with a new-born baby girl abandoned by her mother on a cold and frosty night. She is found and taken in by a good woman who lives alone in a remote house and it isn't long before the baby begins to demonstrate special powers that mark her out as an extraordinary child and probably a witch. Witchcraft is the theme running through three generations in the book and the family story moves from Essex in England, over to the Netherlands, and ends up in...