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The Essex Serpent

bySarah Perry

Genres: Historical fiction Romance Fiction 19th Century Classics Victorian Mysteries Historical Mysteries

Who is this book for? Readers interested in historical fiction, romance, and character-driven narratives.

Topics LoveScience vs FaithIdentitySurvival

MoodReflective, Mysterious

Female protagonist

RomanceMajor Subplot

ViolenceMild

Winner of the Waterstones Book of the Year 2016 British Book Awards Book of the Year 2017 Strange News Out of Essex... The Essex earth had bucked as if trying to shake off all its towns and villages; for twenty seconds, no more, a series of convulsions that paused once as if breath were being drawn and then began again. Set in 1893 and firmly rooted in the author’s home county of Essex, the novel centres on the character of Cora Seaborne, a widow freed from a controlling, unhappy marriage. Retreating to the Essex countryside with her son, she hears the rumours surrounding the so-called ‘Essex Serpent’, a creature of folklore being blamed for a spate of deaths and disturbances and the cause of escalating panic in the local community. Her ensuing investigations bring her into contact with a clergyman, William Ransome, a man convinced of finding the answer to local hysteria in faith, just as Cora is on finding it in science. Despite their differing opinions, their lives become ever-more enmeshed, finding themselves bound to each other in ways neither could anticipate.

Language

Published on

05/05/2022

Pages

448

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781788169622

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