The Black Bird Oracle
novel 2024 All Souls Universe
Record
| First published | 2024 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | |
| Reader rating | 4.06 (42,275 ratings, collected 2026-09-04) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780593724798 |
| Internal chronology | 5 |
Synopsis
The first shadows fall on a Friday afternoon, when a single dying raven delivers an invitation to the witch Diana Bishop, from a great-aunt she never knew existed, Gwyneth Proctor: It is time you came home, Diana. At the same time Diana and her husband, the vampire geneticist Matthew de Clermont, receive a formal demand from the Congregation that the magic of their seven-year-old twins, Pip and Rebecca, be tested. Concerned for their safety and desperate to avoid the fate that led her own parents to spellbind her, Diana decides to forge a different future for her family and goes to Ravenswood, the Proctor family home, where she becomes Gwyneth's pupil in Higher Magic and must journey to the darkest places within her family's history, back to the Salem panic, and within herself, if she is to unlock greater power. The fifth All Souls novel.
Where it sits
- Universe: All Souls Universe
- Series: All Souls Sequence ; position 2 of 2 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Deborah Harkness
Notes
- From the series record (All Souls Sequence): Continuation novels published after the original trilogy concluded; kept Expanded per this project's convention that a later author-driven continuation beyond a completed original trilogy is classified separately from the Core work.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series All Souls Sequence: position 2 of 2: previous Time's Convert (2018)
- Internal chronology, within All Souls Universe: position 5 of 5: previous Time's Convert (2018)
Sources
- https://www.deborahharkness.com/the-black-bird-oracle/
- Ballantine Books (publisher description)
- Headline (publisher's synopsis, via Blackwell's)
- Huntsville-Madison County Public Library catalogue
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