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Costa Book Award Finalist and the Waterstones (UK) E book of the Year 2016 An exquisitely talented young British isles writer makes her American debut with this rapturously acclaimed historical book, set in overdue 19th-century Britain, about an intellectually minded young widow, a pious vicar, and a rumored mythical serpent that explores questions about technology and religious beliefs, skepticism, and faith, freedom and love. When Cora Seaborne's fantastic, domineering partner dies, she steps into her new lease of life as a widow with as much pain relief as sadness: her matrimony had not been a happy one. Wed at 19, this female of exceptional cleverness and interest was ill-suited for the role of culture partner. Seeking refuge in fresh air and available space in the wake of the funeral, Cora leaves London for a visit to coastal Essex, associated with her inquisitive and obsessive 11-time old kid, Francis, and the boy's nanny, Martha, her fiercely protective friend. While admiring the sites, Cora learns of your interesting rumor that has arisen further in the estuary, of a fearsome creature thought to roam the marshes professing human lives. After nearly 300 years, the mythical Essex Serpent is thought to have went back, taking the life span of a young man on New Year's Eve. A keen amateur naturalist without patience for religious beliefs or superstition, Cora is immediately enthralled, and certain that what the local people think is a magical sea beast may be a previously undiscovered types. Eager to research, she is introduced to local vicar William Ransome. Will, too, is suspicious of the rumours. But unlike Cora, this man of faith is convinced the rumours are induced by moral panic, a airline flight from true notion. These seeming opposites who acknowledge nothing soon end up inexorably drawn alongside one another and torn aside - an powerful relationship that will change both of their lives with techniques entirely unexpected. Hailed by Sarah Waters as "a work of great cleverness and charm, by a hugely talented writer," The Essex Serpent is "irresistible...you can feel the influences of Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, and Hilary Mantel channeled by Perry in a few type of Victorian séance. This is the best new book I've read in years." (Daily Telegraph, London).
