Sarah Perry — The Essex Serpent
London, Serpent's Tail, 2016 . First edition. Cloth. A signed fifth impression of Sarah Perry's award-winning Gothic romance. A signed copy of the fifth impression of the first edition of Sarah Perry's 2016 novel, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Flat signed by Perry to the title page.Set in 1893, Perry's novel follows widowed Cora Seaborne as she moves from London to a small village in Essex, becoming intrigued by the idea it may be haunted by a mythological sea serpent. In Cora's interactions with the local Vicar, Will Randsome, the themes of faith and scientific reason are explored.The novel won the British Book Awards for 2016 Book of the Year, and Waterstones Book of the Year 2016. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Light shelf wear to back strip tail, with minor marks to boards. Dust wrapper in fine condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.
