![]() During a year when I did a lot of driving, I listened to a 21-disc biography of Marie Antoinette, which apparently stuck with me. ![]() 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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