The Black Bird Oracle

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ΓÇó Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herselfΓÇöand her family historyΓÇöin the highly anticipated fifth novel of the beloved All Souls series,hailed as ΓÇ£your next favorite fantasy readΓÇ¥ (HarperΓÇÖs Bazaar). ΓÇ£The Black Bird Oracle deftly explores the nexus of memoryhistoryand parenthoodΓÇöthe magicpainand promises mothers pass onto their children.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöJodi Picoult The stunning hardcover of The Black Bird Oracle features a custom-stamped casebeautiful endpapersand a premium dust jacket! Deborah Harkness first introduced the world to Diana Bishopan Oxford scholar and witchand vampire geneticist Matthew de Clermont in A Discovery of Witches. Drawn to each other despite long-standing taboosthese two otherworldly beings found themselves at the center of a battle for a lostenchanted manuscript known as Ashmole 782. Since thenthey have fallen in lovetraveled to Elizabethan Englanddissolved the Covenant between the three speciesand awoken the dark powers within DianaΓÇÖs family line. NowDiana and Matthew receive a formal demand from the Congregation: They must test the magic of their seven-year-old twinsPip and Rebecca. Concerned with their safety and desperate to avoid the same fate that led her parents to spellbind herDiana decides to forge a different path for her familyΓÇÖs future and answers a message from a great-aunt she never knew existedGwyneth Proctorwhose invitation simply reads: ItΓÇÖs time you came homeDiana. On the hallowed ground of Ravenswoodthe Proctor family homeand under the tutelage of Gwynetha talented witch grounded in higher magica new era begins for Diana: a confrontation with her familyΓÇÖs dark past and a reckoning for her own desire for even greater powerΓÇöif she can let gofinallyof her fear of wielding it. In this stunning new novelgrand in scopeDeborah Harkness deepens the beloved world of All Souls with powerful new magic and long-hidden secretsand the path Diana finds at Ravenswood leads to the most consequential moments yet in this cherished series.