But when two of their number meet Mr Norrell, they convince the reclusive magician to appear in society – and so reintroduce magic to England. At the start of the book, all magicians are ‘theoretical magicians’, which means that they study magic instead of practice it. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is a huge story set in alternate England where magic exists. Spoiler alert: it didn’t (I finished another three books) but I did finally finish this which is an accomplishment. So before I left for holiday, I decided to download this, thinking that it should last me the entire two weeks. I’ve been wanting to read this book for a pretty long time (Goodreads says I shelved this as ‘want to read’ in 2012!) but its size has put me off.
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