![]() Neil Gaiman declared himself a fan and started comparing Clarke to Shakespeare. ![]() Norrell is the only book ever to have been both long-listed for literary fiction’s Mann Booker Prize and win fantasy’s Hugo Award. A reader’s report that Clarke’s publisher commissioned before acquiring the book and then distributed widely afterward began with the reader declaring they were waiving their usual fee because they had enjoyed reading the book so much. It is substantial, both in length and in ideas, and also enormously fun to read. Norrell is a big, sprawling, mythical book, a Victorian pastiche full of footnotes and arch Austenian wit in which ancient magics keep seeping in through the margins. Norrell, in the kind of massive, culture-shaking event most novelists dream of. ![]() In 2004, Susanna Clarke published her first novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr. ![]()
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