Harknesss 2011 novelwhich was the first installment in her All Souls trilogywasinspired by the authors own workas a historian.
What if, she wondered, vampires and witches were real?
How would they operate in todays world hidden in plain sight?
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Its almost like just a slightly heightened reality, he explains.
Its fing staggering, starMatthew Goode(Downton Abbey) says of the sense of realism on set.
My favorite thing is the love story.
[Theres] folklore around these lives, [but] it feels very truthful and normal.
There are ways that you stereotype an academic.
Shes just so complex and layered and sunny, and I wanted to be around her.
I wanted to embody this character and live in her.
As Teresa Palmer puts it, Theres a little bit of extra magic dust on this series.
Note: This article previously misidentified Bill Nighy as belonging to theResident Evilfranchise.
