![]() ![]() It’s probably not perfect, and at 1,024 pages it’s going to be a while before I read it again. All the same, once I’d finished the book I put it on my shelf and it’s been there ever since, like all the other different and special books that I’ve read once and then forgotten all about.īut some books are slow burners, and as the years have dragged on Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell sticks in my mind as a genuine masterpiece. In the month that it took me to read the novel I became more and more aware that, not only was I enjoying every second of it, but that I was also reading something really different and really special. I found Strange and Norrell in a charity shop that I’d ducked into to avoid the rain. At the time I was really into Sci-Fi and Fantasy – which are brilliant genres, even if I almost never read them anymore. A few years ago I read Susanna Clarke’s mammoth 2004 novel Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. ![]()
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