Women from the Sparrow family have lived in a small town in New England for several generations. They are all born in March, and each exhibits some unusual gift at the age of thirteen. The first of them, Rebecca, felt no pain at all. Elinor literally smells lies, her daughter Jenny sees other people's dreams, and her granddaughter Stella has an ability that would be better called not a gift, but a curse: she is given the ability to see how and when a given person will die. And some people especially didn’t like it... Alice Hoffman is a recognized master of a subtle psychological novel. The total circulation of her books is more than 50 million copies. The novel “Practical Magic” was filmed (starring Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock).