Only when this initial enchantment wears off may Clarke's admirably inventive, frequently delightful novel open up to reveal its desolate spirit and its fear of the very forces it purports to celebrate. USA Today on Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Ravishing.A chimera of a novel that combines the dark mythology of fantasy with the delicious social comedy of Jane Austen into a masterpiece of the genre that rivals Tolkien.What really sets Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is likely, in the months ahead, to be enveloped in a swirling haze of acclaim. Whatever it is, debut author Susanna Clarke is possessed by it. There are many less crucial but annoying flaws and redundancies which sharper editing could have remedied. a sophisticated writer, crafting elegant metaphors.overall this large, loquacious book has nothing much to say, the plot creaks frightfully in many places and the pace dawdles.
the defining features of Clarke's style simultaneously: the archly Austenesque tone, the somewhat overdone quaintness ('upon the Tuesday'), the winningly matter-of-fact use of the supernatural, and drollness to spare.
Susanna Clarke concocts a wickedly credible parallel history of Britain in which magicians were as active and prominent as anyone else we learned about at school.
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