![]() ![]() Knox was trying to read Emily's thoughts but Emily died saying that she knew the secret of the book known as Ashmole 782 and that he would never possess it. Sarah tells Diana the story of how Emily died, that Emily was using dangerous, higher magics to seek information from spirits about death and disaster that Emily was foreseeing. ![]() They see Diana's familiar, a firedrake named Corra. Gallowglass reveals that Philippe adopted Diana as a daughter with a blood vow. Fernando is the mate of the deceased vampire Hugh de Clermont, who was Gallowglass' father. Peter Knox was touching Emily's head, then, when Emily's partner, Sarah, arrived and shouted her name, Knox released Emily, who crumpled to the ground unconscious and could not be revived. Phoebe is iron-willed and diplomatic.Īt the same time at Sept-Tours, vampire Fernando Gonçalves cooks a tortilla española while talking with vampire Gallowglass about how Gallowglass saw Emily die. Marcus' human fiancee, Phoebe Taylor, joins Marcus before they go out to greet Diana and Matthew. Emily was at the temple dedicated to the goddess near Sept-Tours, as well as vampire Gerbert of Aurillac and witch Peter Knox. ![]() Just before greeting Diana and Matthew upon their return to Sept-Tours, vampire Marcus Whitmore remembers how Diana's beloved aunt Emily Mather died while Diana was away. When Emily says that Diana has never liked change, Philippe responds it's because Diana is afraid of what she must become. They realize that Diana is pregnant with twins by Matthew. ![]() The third book in the series opens with the deceased witch Emily Mather and vampire Philippe de Clermont, as ghosts, seeing Matthew and Diana arrive to Sept-Tours. In ancestral homes and university laboratories, using ancient knowledge and modern science, from the hills of the Auvergne to the palaces of Venice and beyond, the couple at last learn what the witches discovered so many centuries ago. In the trilogy's final volume, Harkness deepens her themes of power and passion, family and caring, past deeds and their present consequences. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on even more urgency. At Matthew 's ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches-with one significant exception. Chapter 1 was made available to readers in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand via iTunes.Īfter traveling through time in Shadow of Night, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. On May 12, 2014, chapter 1 was released on Harkness's website, courtesy of Viking and Headline. On January 9, 2014, the United States front cover and a two page excerpt were released to the public on USA Today. It was published on Jin hardback, e-book, and audiobook in the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland. She has received Fulbright, Guggenheim, and National Humanities Center fellowships, and her most recent scholarly work is The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution.The Book of Life is the third and final installment of the All Souls Trilogy. Harkness has published scholarly articles on topics such as the influence of theatrical conventions on the occult sciences, scientific households, female medical practice in early modern London, medical curiosity, and the influence of accounting practices on scientific record keeping. She is currently a professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she teaches European history and the history of science. Having spent more than a quarter of a century as a student and scholar of history, Harkness holds degrees from Mount Holyoke College, Northwestern University, and the University of California at Davis. The popular television adaptation of A Discovery of Witches, starring Theresa Palmer and Matthew Goode, was released in 2019 by Sky/Sundance Now, and also broadcast on AMC. The All Souls series has been translated in thirty-eight languages. The first book in Harkness’s beloved All Souls series, A Discovery of Witches, was an instant New York Times bestseller and the series has since expanded with the addition of subsequent NYT bestsellers, Shadow of Night (2012), The Book of Life (2014), and Time’s Convert (2018), as well as the companion reader, The World of All Souls. Deborah Harkness is a #1 New York Times bestselling author who draws on her expertise as an historian of science, medicine, and the history of the book to create rich narratives steeped in magical realism, historical curiosity, and deeply human questions about what it is that makes us who we are. ![]()
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