The Book of Magic (Practical Magic, #2)

by Alice Hoffman

In London Kylie discovers The Invisible Library, a place that is kept hidden but has existed for hundreds of years. It’s a repository of magical texts, the exact library I wish I had stumbled upon on summer day. I collect magic books and have my own magic library and so I could well imagine what this library might look like. It is set in the Bayswater section of London, the first place in London I visited when I was a beginning writer in graduate school. I spent several weeks in a small hotel in the middle of a heat wave thinking about a novel I would one day write. In a way, that neighborhood in London is my Invisible Library.