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Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and long-dead kings. I appear to have conjured the spirit of a banker.

Susanna Clarke

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Susanna Clarke
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: November 16
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