Who recommends it
- Sam GuglaniInterview
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry: its sheer immersive storytelling, the amazing cast of characters, the Victorian world it inhabits which – surprise, surprise! – isn’t so different from ours, its brazen engagement with politics, its exploration of fear, and its love story which – to me, at heart – is one between…
- Diane CoyleInterview
Welfare Economics and the Theory of the State by William Baumol. General non-fiction: The Deluge by Adam Tooze. Fiction: The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry.
- Rachel ParrisInterview
It was After Me Comes The Flood by Sarah Perry and I bought it because I loved her The Essex Serpent so much. I love her writing, it’sdream-like and intoxicating and she draws you right in. With both books, I felt a bit drunk reading the first few chapters, she disorientates you but you absolutely can’t put it down…
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