![]() Norrell, because it reads like a Regency novel but is full of magic-and Clarke created an incredible history of magic in the footnotes. The most direct inspiration was Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr. ![]() What books inspired you to write Enchantée ? I have so many! When I was 17, my favorite books were Wuthering Heights, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, and the collected poems of e.e cummings. You never know where inspiration will come from. Really, I’ll read anything as long as it’s good. Grimms’ fairy tales are my desert-island book. What kind of books do you read?Īll kinds, from books on gardening and societal collapse to thrillers and poetry. For example, I read an Englishman’s account of how derelict and filthy Versailles was when he visited in the 1770s and that helped shape the magic in Enchantée. The weird details I come across when I’m doing historical research also inspire me. ![]()
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