Perry writes beautifully and sometimes agreeably sharply… The Essex Serpent is a wonderfully satisfying novel. Ford Madox Ford thought the glory of the novel was its ability to make the reader think and feel at the same time. “An irresistible new novel…the most delightful heroine since Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice …By the end, The Essex Serpent identifies a mystery far greater than some creature ‘from the illuminated margins of a manuscript’: friendship.” – Washington Post I found it so transporting that 48 hours after completing it, I was still resentful to be back home.” – New York Times “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. Winner of the British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year and overall Book of the Year, selected as the Waterstones Book of the Year, and a Costa Book Award Finalist A Kirkus Review Best Book of 2017 and a Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction.
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