5/19/2023 0 Comments Susanna clarke books![]() ![]() ![]() Chesterton describes scenes and objects and colours with an almost heraldic vividness – or, looked at another way, as if they were pages in a modern graphic novel. But it’s an odd sort of nightmare – one where terror keeps dissolving into cheerfulness (which is the opposite way round from most nightmares, and from a lot of contemporary fiction). It’s an extraordinary novel, funny and clever. The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton. Jane Austen’s Emma is quite different today from when I read it first as a teenager. This question also works the other way round: my life keeps changing books. From Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman I learned to be courageous in writing. ![]() From Charles Palliser’s The Quincunx I learned that you didn’t have to write a 21st-century novel if you didn’t want to you could write a 19th-century one. All sorts of books throughout my life have nudged me this way and that – like winds in a sail, I suppose. ![]()
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