A hypnotic novel. "A Discovery of Witches" became an international sensation in more than thirty countries around the world!
An encoded manuscript brings together a thousand-year-old vampire and a bewitched witch. This will trigger a cataclysm that will shake the foundations of the supernatural world with frightening and unpredictable consequences. Deep in the heart of the Oxford Bodleian Library, Diana Bishop comes across a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her scholarly work. Diana comes from a prominent family of witches, but she wants nothing to do with the supernatural. So after taking a superficial look at the book and jotting down a few notes, she returns it.
But her discovery causes an uproar and soon hordes of witches, demons and vampires rush to the library. Diana has stumbled upon a treasure coveted by all, lost for centuries, and she is the only being who can break its spell. Matthew Clairmont is a geneticist and a vampire who has lived for more than a thousand years. The connection between them is impossible, yet inevitable. Diana will stand against everyone and everything and will trust him, and he will risk his life for her happiness. Their intimacy will cross taboos that have stood unshaken for millennia.
And the world will change.
Deborah Harkness creates an exceptionally inventive read, in which history and magic, romance and suspense intertwine. Diana is a bold heroine who meets her equal partner in the vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. She gradually trusts him, until their relationship becomes an intimacy that crosses unshakable taboos. This intelligent and complex plot follows their efforts to unravel the secret of the manuscript, whose pages lure them toward a mysterious past and an uncertain future.
