# Will Susanna Clarke publish another novel?

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**Created:** [November 17, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-susanna-clarke-publish-another-novel/561027 "2010-11-17T22:17:34Z")\
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She spent ten years writing _Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell_. The result was a great book that I’m sure will remain a classic. I haven’t read her short story collection but it doesn’t seem to have gotten the acclaim that her novel did.

Has Clarke set the bar for herself too high now? It’s hard to believe that she will be able to write another novel that will live up to the expectations raised by her first one.

Will she become another Ralph Ellison or Harper Lee or Margaret Mitchell, who were apparently overwhelmed by the success of their first novels?

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**Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-susanna-clarke-publish-another-novel/561027/2 "2010-11-17T22:26:07Z")

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_The Ladies of grace Adieu_ was pretty good, but it seemed to me like the stories were written before the novel. A couple had a desk drawer feel to them, nowhere near as polished as _Jonathan Strange_.

Per her website interview she’s working on another book, which isn’t necessasrily a sequel:

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> The next book will be set in the same world and will probably start a few years after Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell finishes. I feel very much at home in the early nineteenth century and am not inclined to leave it. I doubt that the new book will be a sequel in the strictest sense. There are new characters to be introduced, though probably some old friends will appear too. I’d like to move down the social scale a bit. Strange and Norrell were both rich, with pots of money and big estates. Some of the characters in the second book have to struggle a bit harder to keep body and soul together. I expect there’ll be more about John Uskglass, the Raven King, and about how magic develops in England.

I can’t seem to find any new information about the movie. Soemthing about a studio losing the rights or somesuch.