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Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herselfand her family historyin the highly anticipated fifth novel of the beloved 1 New York Times bestselling All Souls series

The Black Bird Oracle deftly explores the nexus of memory history and parenthoodthe magic pain and promises mothers pass onto their childrenJodi 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 longstanding 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 Dianas family line

Now Diana and Matthew receive a formal demand from the Congregation They must test the magic of their sevenyearold 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 familys future and answers a message from a greataunt she never knew existed Gwyneth Proctor whose invitation simply reads Its 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 familys dark past and a reckoning for her own desire for even greater powerif 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 longhidden secrets and the path Diana finds at Ravenswood leads to the most consequential moments yet in this cherished series

This audiobook edition comes with a downloadable PDF including a family tree