


She returned to England in 1992 and spent the rest of that year in County Durham, in a house that looked out over the North Sea. The following year she taught English in Bilbao. In 1990, she left London and went to Turin to teach English to stressed-out executives of the Fiat motor company. She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and has worked in various areas of non-fiction publishing, including Gordon Fraser and Quarto.

A nomadic childhood was spent in towns in Northern England and Scotland. From 1993 to 2003, Susanna Clarke was an editor at Simon and Schuster's Cambridge office, where she worked on their cooke Susanna Clarke was born in Nottingham in 1959. There she began working on her first novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Susanna Clarke was born in Nottingham in 1959.
