An Evening with Deborah Harkness
Enjoy a spectacular evening with bestselling author Deborah Harkness and her latest book The Black Bird Oracle on Thursday 5th September at the Tom Fleming Centre for Performing Arts!
About An Evening with Deborah Harkness
Please note, this event is now taking place at the Tom Fleming Centre for Performing Arts, Stewart's Melville College, Queensferry Road, Edinburgh, EH4 3EZ
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 All Souls series. Join us for a spectacular evening with bestselling author Deborah Harkness and her latest book The Black Bird Oracle, a triumphant novel that sweeps back to the Salem Panic and illuminates Diana's family history in new and thrilling ways.
The Black Bird Oracle:
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.
About Deborah Harkness:
Deborah Harkness is the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night and The Book of Life. A history professor at the University of Southern California, Harkness has received Fulbright, Guggenheim, and National Humanities Center fellowships.
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