Alice Hoffman

And this is the second part of our first two-part episode about a book, which is kind of wild that we did two parts about this book, but whatever.

The book is called The Witches of Cambridge by Alice Hoffman, and we really appreciate you sticking with us for part two.

Yeah.

And if you haven't listened to part one, go ahead and listen to it.

exactly where ava goes yeah

wow

what a catch i'm actually kind of surprised alice hoffman was just like and then sylvia plath came

right yeah

So Avi saw the incoming call from Stephen Alish.

He's like, who's Stephen Alish? So you texted me right away and you're like, steve and alice just butt dialed us and i was like yeah that'll be a funny story to tell on the podcast and we were supposed to tell this on the bullshit so but that ended up turning to a whole other episode but we never so we never actually told this on the episode but you said you heard him and robin talking on

i answered i took a big deep breath and i think it was in the kitchen and aaron's i was like hello And like, I thought I could hear a woman's voice.

It could have been Robin, but I thought I heard her say something like they know who Stephen Alish is or they something.

Yaro is standing in the poison garden saying, I think there's been a scheduling error here.

Was it deliberate? Was it a mistake? Was there another connection that we hadn't found? A normal person might turn the page, but we opened a full-on investigation.

Yaro's like, what am I supposed to be doing? Am I poisoned? i didn't know that found some answers to that one as to why uh alice placed it there and it did make sense right i think that's what we found so guys go check out that episode now let's talk about the maria's sapphire episode because that gave us a whole other surprise right i didn't realize upon first glance but now like going back to research for the episode there are actually two different sapphires in her story.

A false sapphire from the man who betrayed her, that John motherfucking Hathorne, and a real one from the man who loved her, that Samuel Swoon Diaz.

Is that?

What happened to Alice Hoffman? Was that just who wrote the novel? The novel.

Yes.

Yeah.

I thought that was really fun.

So, OK, I guess before we dive in, do you want to do a quick plot summation? In

Alice Hoffman's novel and in a 1998 film adaptation, orphaned witch sisters Sally and Jillian Owens are raised by their eccentric aunts, eccentric.

I can't believe their forbidden resurrection backfired.

So I'm going to read the summary from the back of the DVD.

fun and excitement i don't know why i want to do this like a little british boy do it like that that is how they would do it fun and excitement abound in the owens family of wiley witches one problem though the men the owens women fall in love with are doomed to an untimely death Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman sparkle in practical magic, adapted from Alice Hoffman's bestseller and directed by Griffin Dunn.

They play Sally and Jillian Owens, sisters hexed by a centuries-old curse and coping with a witch's brew of events involving a possible love match for one.

a zombie for the other and a need to resume the age-old witchcraft taught by two doting owens aunts sit for a spell and enjoy nice i don't know why that is the how i felt like doing it

We're the witches of the witch's origin line, I should say.

And today we are here to talk about Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman.

Love it.

So we did a quick mini-sode.

Okay.

So I did want to highlight.

So Alice Hoffman, huge writer.

She's an American.

Right.

And I know the first book is not as good as the movie is what I've heard, but it's interesting that it took her like 25 years to get to, because Alice Hoffman has been like, she's got a, long list of books that she's written.

It's just kind of funny that it took her so long.

Oh, okay.