Clarke creates a world beyond our wildest imagination that also tells us something profound about what it is to be human -- BERNARDINE EVARISTO

A modern masterpiece ... It is that rare beast, a cult novel that is also a mainstream smash hit and continues to beguile its legions of readers to the present day . An indelible, fascinating story, one to lose oneself in for days, even weeks - SPECTATOR

What a world Susanna Clarke conjures into being -- DAVID MITCHELL

A miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling -- MADELINE MILLER

Clarke's imagination is prodigious, her pacing masterly - NEW YORK TIMES

One of the greatest and most interesting writers of fantasy in the past hundred years or more - TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

Full of epic sweep and intimate human drama . An imaginative treat - DAILY TELEGRAPH

Many books are to be read, and a few are meant to be lived in for weeks. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is of this last kind - WASHINGTON POST

Purely joyful reading -- NAOMI ALDERMAN

Ravishing ... Combines the dark mythology of fantasy with the delicious social comedy of Jane Austen into a masterpiece that rivals Tolkien - TIME

Admirably inventive, frequently delightful -- MICHEL FABER

Feels unduly classical and nostalgic and yet timeless at the very same time and it has, at the heart of it, that thing which every truly great novel needs: a brilliant story . I adored this book - GUARDIAN

A triumph of imaginative storytelling - IRISH TIMES