But it's not a style built to sustain a big, sweeping narrative like the one she's produced. "(I)mmense, intelligent, inventive, arid, and exhausting (.) Clarke is a restrained and witty writer with an arch and eminently readable style.(.) By all means, read the book that everyone will be talking about this winter, but don't worry if you don't get through it. "(I)s the book any good ? It is, but only in parts."Susanna Clarke's magic is above all, though, a peculiarly English phenomenon, a kind of apothecary's tincture of a national eccentricity out of which emerges a host of vivid characters from every walk of early 19th-century life" - Matthew Alexander, Daily Telegraph.(.) She's as deft at describing the flutter of gossip at a dinner party in London as she is at describing a gown covered in small shrieking mouths in Fairyland." - Ron Charles, Christian Science Monitor In fact, I'm so in love with Susanna Clarke's debut novel that I must have been beaned on the head with a golden snitch. It's altogether original - far closer to Dickens than Rowling. Not quite a consensus, but many enthralled
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