Susanna Clarke: 'You’ve got to play with things being very fantastical and also slightly humdrum'
This spring we've heard from Fríða Ísberg, Bronia Flett, Jeremy Wikeley and PR Woods already. But we bring this series to a close with Susanna Clarke and her short story The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City.
Clarke tells us that it's a story she's been thinking about for some time.
"I have never really stopped thinking about Strange and Norrell," she says. "It's a world that keeps summoning me back."
In the novel, The Raven King was very young when he first arrived in England, Clarke explains, "and I had an idea that he wasn't too happy. And also that he would be surrounded by…
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