The Black Bird Oracle

A dying raven arrives on a Friday afternoon carrying an invitation for the witch Diana Bishop. It summons her to Ravenswood, the hallowed ground of a family she has never known, just as she and her husband Matthew Clairmont learn that their seven-year-old twins must have their magical powers tested. Hoping for answers and a different future for her children, Diana takes them to the Proctor ancestral home.

There she becomes the pupil of her great aunt Gwyneth in Higher Magic, a path that leads into the darkest corners of her family's history and of herself. Deborah Harkness returns to the world of All Souls in this Sunday Times bestseller, reaching back to the Salem Panic to trace how the Bishop and Proctor lines are bound together. For anyone who has missed Diana and Matthew, it is a long, lore-rich homecoming.