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The Essex Serpent
The Sunday Times bestseller
Sarah Perry
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Now an Apple TV series starring Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston
The Sunday Times number one bestseller
Overall Book of the Year and Fiction Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2017 (Nibbies)
Longlisted for the 2017 Women's Prize for Fiction
The Waterstones Book of the Year 2016
Shortlisted for the 2016 Costa Novel Award
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, they hear rumours 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, is enthralled, convinced that what the locals think is a magical beast may be a yet-undiscovered species. As she sets out on its trail, she is introduced to William Ransome, Aldwinter's vicar, who is also deeply suspicious of the rumours, but thinks they are a distraction from true faith.
As he tries to calm his parishioners, Will and Cora strike up an intense relationship, and although they agree on absolutely nothing, they find themselves at once drawn together and torn apart, affecting each other in ways that surprise them both.
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s an
<b> esoteric, whimsical book that joins the ranks of generations of Victorian and Gothic novels from Doyle to </b>
<b>Shelley</b>, all the while defying the very traditions these books have set down... The perfect book to read as you sit in an overgrown garden, or while tramping through the heath.
<i>The Essex Serpent</i> has been hailed as a modern classic, and for good reason. It'
<i>The Essex Serpent</i> has been hailed as a modern classic, and for good reason. It'
<b>A richly themed and exhilarating novel</b> ... this <b>poetically written</b> story dramatises the clash between rationality and resurgent superstition, between desire, morality and the intellect, and the struggle of reformers to redress the poverty of late-Victorian society.
Dazzling
d finished it I started reading it again.
I loved this book. At once <b>numinous, intimate and wise</b>, <i>The Essex Serpent</i> is a marvellous novel about the workings of life, love and belief, about science and religion, secrets, mysteries, and the complicated and unexpected shifts of the human heart - and it contains some of the most beautiful evocations of place and landscape I've ever read. <b>It is so good its pages seem lit from within</b>. As soon as I'
I loved this book. At once <b>numinous, intimate and wise</b>, <i>The Essex Serpent</i> is a marvellous novel about the workings of life, love and belief, about science and religion, secrets, mysteries, and the complicated and unexpected shifts of the human heart - and it contains some of the most beautiful evocations of place and landscape I've ever read. <b>It is so good its pages seem lit from within</b>. As soon as I'
One for the holiday suitcase. A historical romance with a gothic twist ... expect to spot a copy on beach towels this summer.
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry [is] <b> a joyous and beguiling book</b> that wrapped itself around me rather like its eponymous monster.
re saying is true: sumptuous, beautiful, powerful, engrossing, brilliant.</b>
<b>Everything they'
<b>Everything they'
<i>The Essex Serpent</i> is <b> a novel to relish</b>: a work of great intelligence and charm, by a hugely talented author
s place once in a while.
<b>A lovely book</b> ... it sets out unashamedly to lift the spirits ... The writing has a gorgeous lilt ... The method is itself Victorian - an omniscient narrator scattering sackfuls of sympathy - but the message never gets old: the world is poorer if we don't put ourselves in each other'
<b>A lovely book</b> ... it sets out unashamedly to lift the spirits ... The writing has a gorgeous lilt ... The method is itself Victorian - an omniscient narrator scattering sackfuls of sympathy - but the message never gets old: the world is poorer if we don't put ourselves in each other'
A graceful and intelligent book.
t want it to end</b>.
A big, warm, generous novel that wears its considerable wisdom lightly, <i>The Essex Serpent</i> is <b>an absolute pleasure from start to finish - I truly didn'
A big, warm, generous novel that wears its considerable wisdom lightly, <i>The Essex Serpent</i> is <b>an absolute pleasure from start to finish - I truly didn'
s descriptions of Essex bring to life the beauty of one of our more under-appreciated counties.
One of the most-loved books of the last two years...Perry'
One of the most-loved books of the last two years...Perry'
s the kind of work that makes you alive to the strangeness of the world and of our history.
An irresistible novel ... Perry's Victoriana is the <b>most fresh-feeling</b> I can remember ... Her prose is often beautiful ... the tone is a masterstroke ... You feel the influences of <b> Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Hilary Mantel</b> channelled by Perry in some sort of Victorian séance. <b> This is the best new novel I've read in years. </b>It'
An irresistible novel ... Perry's Victoriana is the <b>most fresh-feeling</b> I can remember ... Her prose is often beautiful ... the tone is a masterstroke ... You feel the influences of <b> Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Hilary Mantel</b> channelled by Perry in some sort of Victorian séance. <b> This is the best new novel I've read in years. </b>It'
Sarah Perry...beautifully and deeply...elucidates friendships of all kinds in her books...I must recommend the delicate beauty and sinuous power.
. There she meets the local vicar, Will Ransome, and despite his scepticism about science and her lack of faith in religion, the two forge an unlikely bond.
<b>A bewitching and luminous book about science, faith and different kinds of love.</b>
It's 1893, and Cora Seabourne is a young widow whose husband's death has released her from a miserable marriage. Finally free to follow her own interest in natural history, Cora heads to Essex, hoping the recent reports of a mysterious ancient serpent may possibly turn out to be proof of a "living fossil . . . a species outwitting extinction"
It's 1893, and Cora Seabourne is a young widow whose husband's death has released her from a miserable marriage. Finally free to follow her own interest in natural history, Cora heads to Essex, hoping the recent reports of a mysterious ancient serpent may possibly turn out to be proof of a "living fossil . . . a species outwitting extinction"
Had <b>Charles Dickens</b> and <b>Bram Stoker</b> come together to write the great Victorian novel, I wonder if it would have surpassed <i>The Essex Serpent</i>? No way of knowing, but with only her second outing, Sarah Perry establishes herself as <b>one of the finest fiction writers working in Britain today</b>.
A book to make you want to be <b> a better person.</b>
<i>The Essex Serpent</i> is rare in being a novel that is both highly diverting and intellectually rewarding, in taking its thematic interests seriously while playing delightedly with romance and the Gothic.
s about love, faith and myth. I loved it.
My stand-out novel of the year is <i>The Essex Serpent</i>...It'
My stand-out novel of the year is <i>The Essex Serpent</i>...It'
s singular characters are drawn with a fondness that is both palpable and contagious, and the beautifully observed changing seasons permitted space to breathe, all making for
<b>pure pleasure.</b>
A Victorian-era gothic with a Dickensian focus on societal ills, Perry's second novel surprises in its <b>wonderful freshness</b>. There's a sense of Llareggub about close-knit Aldwinter, its flint church, historic oak and ribby shipwreck instantly present, while the tapestry of voices that results from the use of letters amplifies the <i>Under Milk Wood</i> echo. Perry'
A Victorian-era gothic with a Dickensian focus on societal ills, Perry's second novel surprises in its <b>wonderful freshness</b>. There's a sense of Llareggub about close-knit Aldwinter, its flint church, historic oak and ribby shipwreck instantly present, while the tapestry of voices that results from the use of letters amplifies the <i>Under Milk Wood</i> echo. Perry'
s wedding in the phthisic slums of Bethnal Green, snatch the breath in your throat. Perry bleeds light into darkness and back again with a
<b>mastery</b> born of her deep professional acquaintance with the gothic tradition.
One day this book will make a fine BBC period drama ... Perry is a wonderful descriptive writer with a remarkable talent for making the familiar strange ... Her accounts of open-heart surgery carried out half a century before antibiotics, or an autistic child questioning the nature of sin, or a soldier'
One day this book will make a fine BBC period drama ... Perry is a wonderful descriptive writer with a remarkable talent for making the familiar strange ... Her accounts of open-heart surgery carried out half a century before antibiotics, or an autistic child questioning the nature of sin, or a soldier'
An <b>historical novel with real depth</b> ... Perry writes fantastically, and this deserves attention for the rest of the year.
A Notable Book of 2017
A <b>blissful novel of unapologetic appetit</b>es, 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: <b> here is a writer who understands life</b>.
s ability to conjure up a sense of entire lives unfolding before our eyes that is most impressive. Filled with wisdom about human behaviour and motivations, and written in a distinctive, stylish prose
<i>, The Essex Serpent</i> is
<b>one of the most memorable historical novels of the past decade.</b>
<i>The Essex Serpent</i> is a work of historical fiction, set in the 1890s, which, <b>for originality, richness of prose and depth of characterisation is unlikely to be bettered this year ... a remarkable novel</b>. Although Will and Cora provide the focal points for her story, Perry has packed <i>The Essex Serpent</i> with a rich array of equally rounded characters to hold our attention. The novel is full of vivid set pieces ... it is Perry'
<i>The Essex Serpent</i> is a work of historical fiction, set in the 1890s, which, <b>for originality, richness of prose and depth of characterisation is unlikely to be bettered this year ... a remarkable novel</b>. Although Will and Cora provide the focal points for her story, Perry has packed <i>The Essex Serpent</i> with a rich array of equally rounded characters to hold our attention. The novel is full of vivid set pieces ... it is Perry'
<i>The Essex Serpent</i> is <b>frightfully good</b>.
s clear that
<b>Perry is a gifted writer of immense ability</b>.
A novel of ideas, and flexes its muscles in addressing multiple concerns of the period ... The novel probes at both private emotion and public concerns, and is <b>engrossing and immersive</b>. The grime of London is only surpassed by the murk of Aldwinter. Cora makes for an <b>indelible heroine</b>: uncompromising, funny and smart, and not unlike Alma Whittaker in Elizabeth Gilbert's <i>The Signature of All Things</i>. <b> There will also be whispers of Dickens or a gamut of 19th century novels of similar size and scale, but Perry's voice and story are her own.</b> Her language is exquisite, her characterisation finely tuned. Based on <i>The</i> <i>Essex Serpent</i> and its predecessor, it'
A novel of ideas, and flexes its muscles in addressing multiple concerns of the period ... The novel probes at both private emotion and public concerns, and is <b>engrossing and immersive</b>. The grime of London is only surpassed by the murk of Aldwinter. Cora makes for an <b>indelible heroine</b>: uncompromising, funny and smart, and not unlike Alma Whittaker in Elizabeth Gilbert's <i>The Signature of All Things</i>. <b> There will also be whispers of Dickens or a gamut of 19th century novels of similar size and scale, but Perry's voice and story are her own.</b> Her language is exquisite, her characterisation finely tuned. Based on <i>The</i> <i>Essex Serpent</i> and its predecessor, it'
An <b>irresistible </b>novel that taps the vein of Victorian gothic and British myth
The Essex Serpent is probably the best novel I have read this year. It is the right kind of literary fiction: full of ideas, challenge, and intrigue, but with a compelling narrative that tows you through the pages like a freight train...Perry has created an ensemble of characters so richly drawn that each could warrant a novel in his or her own right...invigorating, fascinating, and hugely enjoyable.
s genius for unsettling atmosphere ... Hardy-esque ...
<b>a rich and complex novel but also a deeply enjoyable read, with warm humanity at its core.</b>
It's prompted comparisons to both Dickens and Bram Stoker and marries the former's abhorrence of injustice with the latter'
It's prompted comparisons to both Dickens and Bram Stoker and marries the former's abhorrence of injustice with the latter'
An <b>intelligent, lushly written gothic yarn</b> ... Reading it makes you want to hotfoot it to the Essex coast.
A sinuous historical novel by the <b>genius </b>that is Sarah Perry
The eponymous serpent makes its presence felt throughout, but this novel is about much, much more than a winged demon terrorising the Essex countryside, and is all the richer for it.
An eerie tale of science and superstition ... <b>gothically good</b>.
s a stunning achievement, one for which
<b>I predict prize nominations galore, from the Wellcome to the Man Booker</b>
Sarah Perry's new novel <i>The Essex Serpent</i> is <b>a thing of beauty inside and out</b>. I don't think I've ever mentioned a book's cover in a review before, but Peter Dyer's William Morris-inspired design is stunning, a tantalizing taste of the equally sumptuous prose that lies within ... When it comes to historical fiction, Perry's achieved the near impossible; she's created a novel and within it a world that seems to have sprung complete and fully formed directly from the period in question - a long lost fin-de-siècle Gothic classic - but her characters are as enticingly modern as they are of their period ... Perry also showcases the most beguiling evocations of landscape ... For only a second novel it'
Sarah Perry's new novel <i>The Essex Serpent</i> is <b>a thing of beauty inside and out</b>. I don't think I've ever mentioned a book's cover in a review before, but Peter Dyer's William Morris-inspired design is stunning, a tantalizing taste of the equally sumptuous prose that lies within ... When it comes to historical fiction, Perry's achieved the near impossible; she's created a novel and within it a world that seems to have sprung complete and fully formed directly from the period in question - a long lost fin-de-siècle Gothic classic - but her characters are as enticingly modern as they are of their period ... Perry also showcases the most beguiling evocations of landscape ... For only a second novel it'
<p>Sarah Perry has written an <b>exquisitely absorbing, old-fashioned page-turner</b> peopled by memorable characters, particularly the magnificent, stubborn and wilful Cora. Perry also captures a society on the brink of a profound shift, uncomfortably reassessing its view of the world through the prism of scientific progress.<br><br><i>The Essex Serpent</i> is shot through with such a vivid, lively sense of the period that it reads like Charles Dickens at his most accessible and fans of <i>Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell</i> will also find much to love in this <b>engaging, entertaining Gothic novel</b>.</p>
s
<i>Poor Things</i> (1992), that kept coming back to me ... Perry takes apart our preconceptions of prim Victorian mores with similar gusto ...
<i>The Essex Serpent</i> is a historical novel with an entirely modern consciousness, and is
<b>every bit as gripping and unusual as its predecessor.</b>
Engaging ... On the book's cover, John Burnside compares <i>The Essex Serpent</i> to Dickens and Stoker. But it was one of my favourite novels, Alasdair Gray'
Engaging ... On the book's cover, John Burnside compares <i>The Essex Serpent</i> to Dickens and Stoker. But it was one of my favourite novels, Alasdair Gray'
<i>The Little Stranger</i>.
It's a brilliantly written story of one woman's life and relationships in late Victorian England and my favourite historical novel since Sarah Waters'
It's a brilliantly written story of one woman's life and relationships in late Victorian England and my favourite historical novel since Sarah Waters'
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