Name: | The Book of Life |
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By: | Deborah Harkness |
Narrated by: | Jennifer Ikeda |
Series: | All Souls Series |
Length | 23 hrs and 53 mins |
Category: | Literature & Fiction, Horror |
Release Date: | 2014-07-14 |
Language: | English |
Deborah Harkness is an American historian and novelist, best known for her All Souls Trilogy of historical fantasy novels, which follow the story of historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. Harkness has also written non-fiction works on the history of science and alchemy.
Harkness was born in 1965 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in Flagstaff, Arizona. She earned a BA in history from the University of Arizona in 1987, and went on to complete her MA and PhD in history from Northwestern University in 1992 and 1995 respectively. After a brief stint teaching history at the University of Southern California, Harkness moved to England in 2002 to take up a position as visiting professor at the University of Oxford. It was during her time in Oxford that she began writing her first novel, A Discovery of Witches, which was published in 2011.
The All Souls Trilogy went on to become a major international bestseller, with the second and third books, Shadow of Night and The Book of Life, being published in 2012 and 2014 respectively. The trilogy has been adapted for television, and the first season of the television series premiered on Sky One in the UK in September 2018.
Harkness currently lives in Los
The series of work that I will be writing is called “The Chronicles of Narnia”. This series will be a collection of seven books, all of which will be set in the fictional world of Narnia. The first book in the series, “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, will be published in 1950. The last book in the series, “The Last Battle”, will be published in 1956.
The Book of Life is the first book in the Chronicles of Life series. The book tells the story of a young boy named Simon who discovers a book that can take him back in time to different moments in his life. Simon uses the book to relive moments from his past and learn from his mistakes. The book is a coming-of-age story about a boy who learns to accept responsibility for his actions and grow up.
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