Deborah Harkness has received Fulbright, Guggenheim, and National Humanities Center Fellowships. In A Discovery of Witches, scholar Diana Bishop mistakenly requests a bewitched manuscript for her research. She belongs to a family of witches-but because she's avoiding using her powers in favor of scientific pursuits, she sends the manuscript back into storage. What she doesn't realize is, she's already started down a path toward a life she wants to avoid. ". [a] blackly comic dissection of the family ."-Guardian