num_pages: 241
description: Clarke writes with the twinkling lightness that brings the best folk tales to life - The TimesFaerie is never as far away as you think. Sometimes you find you have crossed an invisible line and must cope, as best you can, with petulant princesses, vengeful owls, ladies who pass their time embroidering terrible fates or with endless paths in deep, dark woods and houses that never appear the same way twice. The heroines and heroes bedevilled by such problems in these fairy tales include a conceited Regency clergyman, an eighteenth-century Jewish doctor and Mary, Queen of Scots, as well as two characters from Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr Norrell: Strange himself and the Raven King.An Unholy alliance of Austen and Angela Carter -  Daily MailThese tales read as if Jane Austen had rewritten the Brothers Grimm...wonderful - SpectatorEven if you don't believe in magic it is a tour de force - Sunday TimesClarke is a natural storyteller - Sunday Telegraph
language: English
title: The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
titlecomplete: The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
characters: Gilbert Norrell, John Uskglass (The Raven King), Jonathan Strange
genres: Fiction, Historical, Magic, Short Stories, British Literature, Science Fiction Fantasy, Alternate History, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Fairy Tales
ratings_count: 20454
places: United Kingdom
series: Strange & Norrell
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Collection, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: World Fantasy Award
category: Best Collection, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Mythopoeic Fantasy Award
category: Adult Literature
publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC