In the “depths” of her illness, she says she could only work one day in a fortnight “which did happen for many years,” and left her “intensely frustrated.” “I had all of these ideas and I wanted to pursue them but my headache and aches and lack of energy wouldn’t let me,” she says. Clarke fell ill while promoting the book and was eventually diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome. Norrell, which sold more than four million copies. Piranesi was published 16 years after her debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr. Women’s prize nominated trans novelist Torrey Peters: ‘Detransitioning needs to stop being weaponised’.A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins review: an addictive whodunnit.
I found these stories fascinating and wanted to do something similar so I had this idea of a huge house with seas and oceans sloshing through it, but for decades I just couldn’t figure out how you could possibly write this story.” READ MORE “There’s a story called The Library of Babel, a world which is entirely a library. “I was reading a lot of Jorge Luis Borges, who writes these exquisite finely-tuned short stories about very strange worlds,” Clarke says. Bernadine Evaristo, the chairman of the judges called Piranesi “a truly original, unexpected flight of fancy which melds genres and challenges preconceptions about what books should be” and that would have lasting impact, “telling us something profound about what it is to be human.” Set in an alternate world it is about a lonely man, Piranesi, who wanders empty halls and courtyards cataloguing them.
New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENTĬlarke, 61, had the idea for the book in her twenties.
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