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"Clarke's work has the shimmering lightness of the best fairy tales" © The Times

Fae are always closer than they seem. Sometimes you cross an invisible line and then deal with impudent princesses, vengeful owls, ladies who embroider a terrible fate for others in their leisure time, endless paths in deep dark thickets, and houses that look different every time. These are the problems that plague the heroes and heroines of these magical stories - a self-absorbed priest in the Regency, a Jewish doctor in the eighteenth century, and Mary Queen of Scots, as well as the two characters in Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Strange himself and the Raven King.