“The most sparkling literary debut of the year. 16 positive reader review (s) for Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. 10/10 A genuinely original story, beautifully told. It is a genuinely original and arresting story and will establish Susanna Clarke as one of the finest new authors of our generation. Clarke's fertile imagination takes her readers to many a mysterious realm.” - The New York Times This book is highly recommended and mainly for adults. “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 And that magic: nobody writes about magic the way Clarke does. “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. So begins a dangerous battle between these two great men which overwhelms that between. Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell is a slightly glum, complex but ultimately intriguing drama about two magicians attempting to return magic to England. “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 Young, handsome and daring, Strange is the very antithesis of Norrell. I feel so differently about the two halves of the book that I wish I could issue two Goodreads ratings.

“ Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is unquestionably the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the last 70 years.” - Neil Gaiman Norrell is a book that I started out loving, but the middle part dragged so much that I grew impatient for the story to end.

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