“The most sparkling literary debut of the year.

Clarke's fertile imagination takes her readers to many a mysterious realm.” - The New York Times “The writing is captivating, the characters charming, and the notion that perhaps there's more to reality than what our senses tell us is, as Clarke might say with a smile, simply enchanting.” - NPR She writes about magic as if she's actually worked it.” - Lev Grossman, TIME Magazine Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke A&C Black, Fiction - 1006 pages 31 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its. The novel is set in a parallel universe made up of an infinite number of halls and vestibules, which triggers a gradual loss of memory and identity in newcomers. And that magic: nobody writes about magic the way Clarke does. It is Clarke's second novel, following her debut Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004), published sixteen years earlier. “A fiercely funny, beautiful writer, Clarke attacks her subject with the wit and craft of a Dickens or Austen, effortlessly mixing historical figures and events in with her magical ones. Proceeding to London, he raises a beautiful woman from the dead and summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French. Shelve Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Shelve Babel: An Arcane History Shelve Neverwhere (London Below, 1) Shelve American Gods (American Gods, 1) Shelve.

“Clarke's imagination is prodigious, her pacing is masterly and she knows how to employ dry humor in the service of majesty.” - Gregory Maguire, The New York Times Book Review “ Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is unquestionably the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the last 70 years.” - Neil Gaiman

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