The illness worsened, and included periods of “quite severe depression”, Clake says. And it’s difficult to put ideas together and make decisions, and I eventually realised that it was totally impossible to write a large, complicated novel.” “But one of the problems that you get with chronic fatigue is you’re very likely to get brain fog. I was trying hard to work on the sequel to Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, which I very much wanted to do. Shortly after that, I became tired all the time, not feeling myself at all, and it was eventually diagnosed as chronic fatigue. “I was at a dinner party,” she recalls, “and I fainted. But Clarke was not sure that it was a book she could write, after struggling for many years with a debilitating illness that took hold after the publication of her bestselling fantasy Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell in 2004. PIRANESI, the long-awaited second novel by Susanna Clarke, has been published to widespread acclaim and, last month, was shortlisted for the 2020 Costa Book Awards.
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