The Black Bird Oracle
The exhilarating new All Souls novel featuring Diana Bishop and Matthew Clairmont
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THE NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
From the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches, now a major Sky TV series.
Reasons to read The Black Bird Oracle and the ALL SOULS series:
'Haunting in every way. A story thick with family secrets, human heartache, and the kind of deep magic only Harkness can conjure. You will be enchanted' LEIGH BARDUGO
'Harkness's lush prose makes a fantastical world real enough to touch' JODI PICOULT
'Rich, thrilling . . . A captivating and romantic ripping yarn' E. L. JAMES
'Intelligent and off-the-wall . . . irresistible to Twilight fans' SUNDAY TIMES
'A bubbling cauldron of illicit desire . . . an assured saga that blends romance with fantasy' DAILY MAIL
'Rich in arcane detail, fans will relish this exotic cauldron of romantic fantasy' SUNDAY MIRROR
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The first shadows fall on a Friday afternoon when a single, dying raven delivers an invitation to the witch, Diana Bishop. It calls her home to the hallowed ground of Ravenswood, to a place and a family she has never known.
And when Diana and her husband Matthew Clairmont learn that their seven-year-old twins must have their magical powers tested, Diana decides to forge a new future for her family, hoping to find answers at the Proctor ancestral home.
There, Diana becomes her great aunt Gwyneth's pupil in Higher Magic. And as Diana walks an unknown path, she must journey to some of the darkest places within her family history - and herself - if she is to unlock greater power.
An instant Sunday Times bestseller, The Black Bird Oracle returns to the world of All Souls, sweeping readers back to the Salem Panic to shine a light on the intertwined legacy of the Bishop and Proctor families.
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Readers love The Black Bird Oracle:
'The Black Bird Oracle gives us everything we've come to expect and love from Deborah Harkness's All Souls series. More magic, more lore, more politicking and discovery' Reader Review ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'I cannot put into words how much I LOVED this book' Reader Review ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'What a BOOK. Exactly what I needed in prep for witchy season' Reader Review ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
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Read the ALL SOULS series in full:
Book 1: A Discovery of Witches
Book 2: Shadow of Night
Book 3: The Book of Life
Book 4: Time's Convert
Book 5: The Black Bird Oracle
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Harkness carries the contemporary fantasy world of her All Souls series (after 2018's Time's Convert) into a new generation with this messy adventure. Pip and Becca, the seven-year-old hybrid vampire-witch twins of New England witch Diana Bishop and French vampire geneticist Matthew de Clermont, are due to be examined for their own eerie talents by the shadowy Congregation. Diana, fearful for them and anxious yet eager to expand her own higher-magic powers, is summoned by ravens to meet her father's relatives in Ravenswood, near Ipswich, Mass., where she and her children endure occult meetings with assorted family ghosts. She also receives magical tarot coaching from Great-Aunt Gwyneth and battles inimical local witch Meg. Matthew, previously the series' wolfish romantic lead, here subsides into a supportive househusband so that Diana, fueled by rabid curiosity and sluiced with endless tea, can pursue her supernatural vocation. There's little heat for romantasy fans to latch onto, and the payoff of the twins' testing is made to wait for future installments. Readers will wish they had an annotated family tree to understand the tangled web of Diana's relations. The result is ambitious, long-winded, and a bit of a muddle.
