It’s a story of love and all the different guises it can take. The Essex Serpent is a sweeping Victorian novel which tells the story of strong-willed, nature-loving Cora Seaborne, a widow who moves to the Essex countryside, becoming irrevocably bound up with the locals. Sarah Perry is the author of After Me Comes the Flood, which won the East Anglian Book Award and was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award.
John Burnside said, ‘Had Charles Dickens and Bram Stoker come together to write the great Victorian novel, I wonder if it would have surpassed The Essex Serpent?’ ‘The Essex Serpent is a novel to relish: a work of great intelligence and charm, by a hugely talented author.’ It’s been making waves on social media and has already earned some rave reviews, including this from Sarah Waters: You may have already got wind of the new novel by Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent.
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