![]() 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. ![]() Perry writes beautifully and sometimes agreeably sharply. “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 '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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