The witches would not forsaken their pride and maturity to please the readers anyway. But don't worry, you are not going to see any "Oh my daughter I miss you so much!" or 'Oh I was such a sinner I need to make peace with all my victims!' soap opera here. After they went back to Eastwick, the story is more focused on Alex and how she reconnected with her estranged daughter and then faced what she and her sister witches had done in the past. The first part of the book deals with the trio's travel to Egypt and then China, there're a lot of interactions among the aged three witches. But after going back to Eastwick, they soon realized after so many years, not everyone in the small town had forgotten what the witches had done in the past.įirst, I have to tell you DO NOT expect a lot of fancy witchcraft or magic display when you read this book, The Widows of Eastwick is more about old age, the loss of youth, beauty and health, facing your past mistakes and guilt, and about how to deal with life itself than about supernatural stuff. Now 30 years later, the three women had already aged and widowed, so they decided to travel around the world and then went back to Eastwick to spend a summer there.
I wonder why this book only gets 2.9 stars from Goodread.Īfter the messy events in The Witches of Eastwick, the three witches: Alex, Jane and Sukie were more or less forced to leave town. It's a solid 'What a delightful book!' 4.5 stars.
How they cope with the lingering traces of their evil deeds, the shocks of a mysterious counterspell, and the advancing inroads of old age, form the burden of Updike’s delightful, ominous sequel. And, among the local citizenry, there are still those who remember them, and wish them ill. Now Darryl is gone, and their lovers of the time have aged or died, but enchantment remains in the familiar streets and scenery of the village, where they enjoyed their lusty primes as free and empowered women.
Why not, Sukie and Jane ask Alexandra, go back to Eastwick for the summer? The old Rhode Island seaside town, where they indulged in wicked mischief under the influence of the diabolical Darryl Van Horne, is still magical for them. They cope with their grief and solitude as widows do: they travel the world, to such foreign lands as Canada, Egypt, and China, and renew old acquaintance. The three divorcées-Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie-have left town, remarried, and become widows. More than three decades have passed since the events described in John Updike’s The Witches of Eastwick.
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