‘The Gothic,’ Sarah Perry told Waterstones, ‘is fundamentally anti-status-quo; it’s a way for people to express transgressive thoughts.’ In three novels - After Me Comes the Flood, The Essex Serpent and Melmoth – the Chelmsford-born Sarah Perry boldly established herself at the front rank of British novelists, wielding an acute sense of place and history with a wildly irrepressible energy. Now a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Sarah Perry’s landmark gothic fantasy The Essex Serpent was awarded the Waterstones Book of the Year for 2016.
From the author of former Waterstones Book of the Year The Essex Serpent comes an intricately crafted exploration of love, religion and the supernatural, as two friends become obsessed with the ghost of a vanished nineteenth-century astronomer.
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