She was very approachable and spent a lot of time with fans.

Teresa Palmer was every bit as lovely as I’d hoped she would be. It includes artefacts from over eight centuries showing how our ancestors interpreted things they didn’t understand in the world around them including emotional confessions from women who were accused of witchcraft. Photography was strictly forbidden inside Spellbound other than two or three exhibits but it was a fascinating look at the history of magic. We were also invited to a private viewing of the new exhibition of Spellbound: Magic Ritual and Witchcraft at the Ashmoleum Oxford University’s museum of art and archaeology where the preview took place. A ‘DNA test’ and a quick personality quiz determined I am in fact a vampire, but luckily I didn’t feel the need to suck any blood that evening. We bloggers also got to enter the Discovery of Witches laboratory, set up in Waterstones’ window area, to find out if we were a witch, a vampire, a daemon or a human.

The queues were half way down the street. The store was buzzing with fans of the book who had been waiting for hours to meet their literary idol. Our day started at the Oxford branch of Waterstones, where Deborah was signing copies of the book and Teresa was meeting and posing for photos with fans. Not only did we get to attend an advanced screening of the first episode ahead of its transmission on Friday 14 September (you can watch the series trailer below) but we also got to meet Teresa Palmer, who plays lead character Diana Bishop, and Deborah Harkness, author of the best-selling book on which the historical fantasy drama is based. I loved seeing what the cast and crew got up to in Wales so I was excited to be invited to a special preview event for bloggers in Oxford last week. I’ve been following the show on Instagram for some time now since I discovered it was being filmed in my home city. The eight-part series is set in Oxford but a lot of the filming actually took place here in Cardiff. Tense, atmospheric and gripping, A Discovery of Witches is the much-anticipated new drama premiering on Sky One this Friday. *paid collaboration with Sky One and A Discovery of Witches

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