The Essex Serpent
from the Booker-longlisted author of Enlightenment
$19.98
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
3 May 2022
Summary
London, 1893. When Cora Seaborne’s controlling husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness. Along with her son Francis - a curious, obsessive boy - she leaves town for Essex, in the hope that fresh air and open space will provide refuge.
On arrival, rumours reach them that the mythical Essex Serpent, once said to roam the marshes claiming lives, has returned to the coastal parish of Aldwinter. Cora, a keen amateur naturalist with no patience for…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781788169622 |
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| ISBN-10: | 178816962X |
| Author: | Sarah Perry |
| Publisher: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Serpent's Tail |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 3 May 2022 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 128mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
‘The Essex Serpent is a novel to relish: a work of great intelligence and charm, by a hugely talented author’ - Sarah Waters
‘Had Charles Dickens and Bram Stoker come together to write the great Victorian novel, I wonder if it would have surpassed The Essex Serpent? No way of knowing, but with only her second outing, Sarah Perry establishes herself as one of the finest fiction writers working in Britain today.’ - John Burnside
‘A big, warm, generous novel that wears its considerable wisdom lightly, The Essex Serpent is an absolute pleasure from start to finish - I truly didn’t want it to end.’ - Melissa Harrison
‘The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry [is] a joyous and beguiling book that wrapped itself around me rather like its eponymous monster.’ - Cathy Rentzenbrink
‘A blissful novel of unapologetic appetites, where desire and faith mingle on the marshes, but friendship is the miracle. Sarah Perry has the rare gift of committing the uncommittable to prose - that is to say: here is a writer who understands life.’ - Jessie Burton
Sarah Perry
Sarah Perry is the author of The Essex Serpent, Melmoth and After Me Comes the Flood. She has been the UNESCO City of Literature writer-in-residence in Prague and a Gladstone’s Library writer-in-residence. Her work has been translated into twenty two languages.
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