More than three decades after the events described in The Witches of Eastwick, Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie—widowed, aging, and with their occult powers fading—return for the summer to the Rhode Island town where they once made piquant scandal and sometimes deadly mischief. But what was then a center of license and liberation is now a “haven of wholesomeness” populated by hockey moms and househusbands primly rebelling against their absent, reckless, self-involved parents. With spirits still free but energy waning, the three women reconstitute their coven to confront not only this youthful counterspell of propriety but also the enmity of those longtime townsfolk who, through their youthful witchery, they irreparably harmed. In this wise and wicked satire on the way we make peace with our pasts, John Updike proves himself a wizard on every page.

約翰•厄普代剋（John Updike，1932.3.18—2009.1.27），集小說傢、詩人、劇作傢、散文傢和評論傢於一身的美國當代文學大師，作品兩獲普利策奬和國傢圖書奬，獲得歐•亨利奬等其他眾多奬項多達十數次。“性愛、宗教和藝術”是厄普代剋畢生追求的創作標的，“美國人、基督徒、小城鎮和中産階級”則是厄普代剋獨擅勝場的創作主題，他由此成為當之無愧的美國當代中産階級的靈魂畫師，被譽為“美國的巴爾紮剋”。