![]() ![]() ![]() The subject of intense interest by publishers worldwide at the 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair, “A Discovery of Witches” is now, two months after publication, already in its seventh printing. And Diana attracts not only the attention of a host of pesky creatures but the dark eyes of a brilliant and terrifying vampire whose quiet charisma she works hard to resist. Humans know about these creatures but keep their distance: There’s an uneasy detente, with stereotypes, wariness and even bigotry in the mix.īut mostly, life goes on, until the novel’s scholarly protagonist and primary narrator, Diana Bishop, comes across an elusive medieval document, long thought lost, which might hold the secrets of eternal life. The result of her inquiry is her first novel, “A Discovery of Witches,” which starts out in a contemporary England in which witches, vampires, daemons and humans fight for good light in Oxford University’s libraries and even sometimes attend the same yoga class. What if 16th century people were right, and the supernatural and natural coexisted? How would that play out? It started out almost like a kind of logic problem.” ![]() We think of ourselves as having very little in common with people in 1558. “People believed that the supernatural and the natural existed, intermingled. The whole thing felt to her like a throwback - a throwback of 450 years. ![]()
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