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The Essex Serpent: A Novel

By Sarah Perry
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By Sarah Perry
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With the help of a fantastic lead character, The Essex Serpent is brilliant historical fiction with mystery, myth and monsters working together to create a compelling narrative. Set in a time when religion, science and magic were actively at odds, this novel embodies that battle and does so with remarkable efficacy.

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A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction * Winner of the British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year and overall Book of the Year *A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of The Year * Waterstones Book of the Year * Costa Book Award Finalist

“A novel of almost insolent ambition—lush and fantastical, a wild Eden behind a garden gate...it’s part ghost story and part natural history lesson, part romance and part feminist parable. I found it so transporting that 48 hours after comple...

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