EAN: 9781035410170

HARKNESS DEBORAH THE BLACK BIRD ORACLE

'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    ' The Black Bird
Oracle deftly explores the nexus of memory  history  and parenthood - the magic  pain  and
promises mothers pass onto their children. Harkness's lush prose makes a fantastical world real
enough to touch' JODI PICOULT    Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herself -
and her family history - in the highly anticipated fifth novel of the beloved Number One Sunday
Times bestselling All Souls series.   The first shadows fall on a Friday afternoon when a
single  dying raven lands on the pavement in front of Diana Bishop  harbinger of an invitation
that reads  'It's time you came home  Diana'.   Diana is a witch and scholar  her husband
Matthew Clairmont  a vampire. Their intense love for one another awoke the dark powers within
her and dissolved the Covenant between the three species - Witch  Daemon and Vampire - that
live alongside humans. Now  the governing Congregation has decided it must test the magical
powers of their seven-year-old twins  Pip and Becca. Concerned with their safety  Diana decides
to forge a different path for her family's future and travels to Ravenswood  the Proctor family
home.  There  Diana begins a new era  becoming her great aunt Gwyneth's pupil in higher magic.
It's time to confront her family's past - and her own  inescapable desire for greater power.  
Number One bestselling author Deborah Harkness returns to her beloved All Souls world with a
triumphant novel that sweeps back to the Salem Panic and illuminates Diana's family history in
new and thrilling ways.

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