Comments on: The Strange Magic of Susanna Clarke http://www.tolkienguide.com/modules/wordpress/archives/9 Tolkien Collector's Guide Collecting News Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:34:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Soronel http://www.tolkienguide.com/modules/wordpress/archives/9#comment-16 Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:43:48 +0000 http://www.tolkienguide.com/modules/wordpress/archives/9#comment-16 I recommend also Ms Clarke's stories contained in "The Ladies of Grace Adieu", which are set in the same world as her first novel. On page 176 there's a footnote about the brugh (the ancestral common habitation of the fairy race): The truth is that the brugh was a hole [...] to paraphrase a writer of fanciful stories for children, this was not a confortable hole, it was not even a dry, bare sandy hole; it was a nasty, dirty, wet hole. I recommend also Ms Clarke’s stories contained in “The Ladies of Grace Adieu”, which are set in the same world as her first novel. On page 176 there’s a footnote about the brugh (the ancestral common habitation of the fairy race):

The truth is that the brugh was a hole […] to paraphrase a writer of fanciful stories for children, this was not a confortable hole, it was not even a dry, bare sandy hole; it was a nasty, dirty, wet hole.

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