The Witches of Eastwick (1984) / The Widows of Eastwick (2008)

Having dissected the American male in the first three of his Rabbit novels, John Updike decided to give the fairer sex a go in his 1984 work The Witches of Eastwick. 24 years later, the titular trio return to their former haunt—the coastal Rhode Island from which the novels take their name—to lament the passage of time.

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