Susanna Clarke Quote
Well, surely, you will agree that a great improvement could be made simply by cutting down those trees that crowd about the house so much and darken every room? They grow just as they please – just where the acorn or seed fell, I suppose. What? asked Strange, whose eyes had wandered back to his book during the latter part of the conversation. The trees, said Henry. Which trees? Those, said Henry, pointing out of the window to a whole host of ancient and magnificent oaks, ashes and beech trees. As far as neighbours go, those trees are quite exemplary. They mind their own affairs and have never troubled me. I rather think that I will return the compliment. But they are blocking the light. So are you, Henry, but I have not yet taken an axe to you.
Well, surely, you will agree that a great improvement could be made simply by cutting down those trees that crowd about the house so much and darken every room? They grow just as they please – just where the acorn or seed fell, I suppose. What? asked Strange, whose eyes had wandered back to his book during the latter part of the conversation. The trees, said Henry. Which trees? Those, said Henry, pointing out of the window to a whole host of ancient and magnificent oaks, ashes and beech trees. As far as neighbours go, those trees are quite exemplary. They mind their own affairs and have never troubled me. I rather think that I will return the compliment. But they are blocking the light. So are you, Henry, but I have not yet taken an axe to you.
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About Susanna Clarke
Two years later, she published a collection of her short stories, The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories (2006). Both Clarke's debut novel and her short stories are set in a magical England and written in a pastiche of the styles of 19th-century writers such as Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. While Strange focuses on the relationship of two men, Jonathan Strange and Gilbert Norrell, the stories in Ladies focus on the power women gain through magic.
Clarke's second novel, Piranesi, was published in September 2020, winning the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction.
In January 2024, she stated that she was currently working on a novel set in Bradford, England.