The Book of Life
core novel 2014 All Souls Universe
Record
| First published | 2014 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.21 (224,405 ratings, collected 2026-09-04) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780670025596 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
The Book of Life (2014) concludes Deborah Harkness's All Souls Trilogy. Diana Bishop and Matthew Clairmont return from sixteenth-century London to the present day, only to learn that a member of Matthew's family has been killed in their absence, an act that intensifies the dangers already surrounding them. Now carrying more of her awakened magical power, Diana continues the search for the remaining pages of Ashmole 782, the enchanted manuscript believed to hold answers about the biological origins of witches, daemons, and vampires. The couple pursue those responsible for the killing and for the theft of the manuscript's pages, drawing on the help of Diana's family of witches and Matthew's extended vampire clan.
Where it sits
- Universe: All Souls Universe
- Series: All Souls Trilogy core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Deborah Harkness
Notes
- From the series record (All Souls Trilogy): Original trilogy; all three volumes were New York Times bestsellers.
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 Trilogy: position 3 of 3: previous Shadow of Night (2012)
- Internal chronology, within All Souls Universe: position 3 of 5: previous Shadow of Night (2012) · next Time's Convert (2018)
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Discovery_of_Witches
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Life_(Harkness_novel)
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