Jonathan Strange is a very cleverly written book and in a genre of its own. I look forward to more from this talented writer and I'm sure you will enjoy it - particularly as you know York (I see from your bio).
My wife and I were there back in May and when I went into the Minster I couldn't help being reminded of Susannah Clarke's book
75 Books Every Woman Should Read from Jezebel Magazine
The Lottery (and Other Stories), Shirley Jackson To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton White Teeth, Zadie Smith The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion Excellent Women, Barbara Pym The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri Beloved, Toni Morrison Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert Like Life, Lorrie Moore Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë The Delta of Venus, Anais Nin A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley A Good Man Is Hard To Find (and Other Stories), Flannery O'Connor The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, Alice Walker Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee Fear of Flying, Erica Jong Earthly Paradise, Colette Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt Property, Valerie Martin Middlemarch, George Eliot Annie John, Jamaica Kincaid The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir Runaway, Alice Munro The Heart is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë You Must Remember This, Joyce Carol Oates Little Women, Louisa May Alcott Bad Behavior, Mary Gaitskill The Liars' Club, Mary Karr I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Betty Smith And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison The Secret History, Donna Tartt The Little Disturbances of Man, Grace Paley The Portable Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker The Group, Mary McCarthy Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank Frankenstein, Mary Shelley Against Interpretation, Susan Sontag In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck Fun Home, Alison Bechdel Three Junes, Julia Glass Vindication on the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft Sophie's Choice, William Styron Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin The Red Tent, Anita Diamant The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera The Face of War, Martha Gellhorn My Antonia, Willa Cather Love In The Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Harsh Voice, Rebecca West Spending, Mary Gordon The Lover, Marguerite Duras The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy Tell Me a Riddle, Tillie Olsen Nightwood, Djuna Barnes Three Lives, Gertrude Stein Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith Possession, A.S. Byatt
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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell cannot wait to read your review this is one I have been debating.
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Jonathan Strange is a very cleverly written book and in a genre of its own. I look forward to more from this talented writer and I'm sure you will enjoy it - particularly as you know York (I see from your bio).
My wife and I were there back in May and when I went into the Minster I couldn't help being reminded of Susannah Clarke's book
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