The essex serpent is a 2016 gothic historical novel by sarah perry, set in victorian england The essex serpent is a beautifully written novel that explores such themes as love and friendship, science and religion, reason and superstition, freedom and powerlessness, and poverty and wealth, set against the divergent backdrops of bustling london and rural essex in the late 1800s. It follows cora seaborne, a widowed palaeontologist who moves to essex and becomes obsessed with a mythical sea creature.
The essex serpent is a wonderfully satisfying novel The essex serpent by sarah perry there are books that grip you with plot, and there are books that quietly inhabit your thoughts with mood, atmosphere, and character. Ford madox ford thought the glory of the novel was its ability to make the reader think and feel at the same time.
At the same time, the novel explores the boundaries of love and. 'the essex serpent is a novel to relish No way of knowing, but with only her second outing, sarah perry establishes herself as one of the finest fiction writers working in.
