![]() ![]() The result is a novel that triumphs on every level, whether in its rich, evocative prose or its authentic Victorian detail, its credible, multifaceted characters or its high-stakes drama.Ĭora Seaborne is a young widow who leaves behind London and the shadow of her overbearing husband by moving to the Essex coast with her “baffling boy” Francis and her companion Martha. Instead she tracks individual lives and connections, explores hearts and minds - specifically aching hearts and inquiring minds. Perry neither dabbles in Gothic horror nor dwells on a community in crisis. ![]() However, its simplified synopsis - an English village is terrorized by the return of a mythical monster - somewhat sells the book short. ![]() But can it repeat its success with a new and wider reading public? ![]() Now the English author’s second novel has been published in America. It was in bookstores and book clubs, on bedside tables and library waiting lists. The book slithered its way to the top of the bestseller lists its sumptuous and suspenseful story coiled tightly around readers’ hearts. Last year in the United Kingdom, Sarah Perry’s “The Essex Serpent” won awards and acclaim. ![]()
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