Clarke's imagination is prodigious, her pacing is masterly and she knows how to employ dry humor in the service of majesty.

The New York Times on THE WOOD AT MIDWINTER

[Piranesi] flooded me, as the tides flood the halls, with a scouring grief, leaving gleaming gifts in its wake . . . rich, wondrous, full of aching joy and sweet sorrow.

The New York Times Book Review on PIRANESI

Piranesi astonished me. It is a miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling, at once a gripping mystery, an adventure through a brilliant new fantasy world, and a deep meditation on the human condition: feeling lost, and being found. I already want to be back in its haunting and beautiful halls!

Madeline Miller, #1 New York Times bestselling author of THE SONG OF ACHILLES and CIRCE

A fiercely funny, beautiful writer, Clarke attacks her subject with the wit and craft of a Dickens or Austen, effortlessly mixing historical figures and events in with her magical ones. And that magic: nobody writes about magic the way Clarke does . . . She writes about magic as if she's actually worked it.

Lev Grossman, TIME Magazine on JONATHAN STRANGE AND MR NORRELL