#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herself—and
her family history—in the highly anticipated fifth novel of the beloved All Souls series
hailed as “your next favorite fantasy read” ( Harper’s Bazaar ). “ The Black Bird Oracle
deftly explores the nexus of memory history and parenthood—the magic pain and promises
mothers pass onto their children.”—Jodi Picoult Deborah Harkness first introduced the world
to Diana Bishop an Oxford scholar and witch and vampire geneticist Matthew de Clermont in A
Discovery of Witches. Drawn to each other despite long-standing taboos these two otherworldly
beings found themselves at the center of a battle for a lost enchanted manuscript known as
Ashmole 782. Since then they have fallen in love traveled to Elizabethan England dissolved
the Covenant between the three species and awoken the dark powers within Diana’s family line.
Now Diana and Matthew receive a formal demand from the Congregation: They must test the magic
of their seven-year-old twins Pip and Rebecca. Concerned with their safety and desperate to
avoid the same fate that led her parents to spellbind her Diana decides to forge a different
path for her family’s future and answers a message from a great-aunt she never knew existed
Gwyneth Proctor whose invitation simply reads: It’s time you came home Diana. On the
hallowed ground of Ravenswood the Proctor family home and under the tutelage of Gwyneth a
talented witch grounded in higher magic a new era begins for Diana: a confrontation with her
family’s dark past and a reckoning for her own desire for even greater power—if she can let go
finally of her fear of wielding it. In this stunning new novel grand in scope Deborah
Harkness deepens the beloved world of All Souls with powerful new magic and long-hidden secrets
and the path Diana finds at Ravenswood leads to the most consequential moments yet in this
cherished series.
