Susanna Clarke





Susanna Clarke

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born
November 01, 1959 in Nottingham, England, The United Kingdom

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Jane Austen, Neil Gaiman


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Susanna Clarke was born in Nottingham in 1959. A nomadic childhood was spent in towns in Northern England and Scotland. She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and has worked in various areas of non-fiction publishing, including Gordon Fraser and Quarto. In 1990, she left London and went to Turin to teach English to stressed-out executives of the Fiat motor company. The following year she taught English in Bilbao.

She returned to England in 1992 and spent the rest of that year in County Durham, in a house that looked out over the North Sea. There she began working on her first novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

From 1993 to 2003, Susanna Clarke was an editor at Simon and Schuster's Cambridge office, whe...more


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Average rating: 3.77 · 49,367 ratings · 5,735 reviews · 21 distinct works
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norre...
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 41,329 ratings — published 2004 — 64 editions
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3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 4,181 ratings — published 2006 — 26 editions
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3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 418 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions
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3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions
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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norre...
4.69 of 5 stars 4.69 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2004
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norr...
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The Sandman: Book of Dreams
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4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 2,262 ratings — published 1996 — 8 editions
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Black Heart, Ivory Bones
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4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 485 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
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Black Swan, White Raven
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 317 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions
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Happily Ever After
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Ho...
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Ho...
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Ho...
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions
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The Way of the Wizard
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
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The Secret History of Fantasy
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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“Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never would.”
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“She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.”
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“To be more precise it was the color of heartache.”
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