![]() ![]() She says this early immersion in old literature and the King James Bible profoundly influenced her writing style. She filled her time with classical music, classic novels and poetry, and church-related activities. ![]() Perry grew up with little, if any, access to contemporary art, culture, and writing. ![]() Perry was born in Chelmsford, Essex, into a family of devout Christians who were members of a Strict Baptist church. She has had two novels published: The Essex Serpent (2016) and After Me Comes the Flood (2014). ![]() Education-Ph.D., Royal Holloway University.To Helen it all seems the stuff of unenlightened fantasy.īut, unaware, as she wanders the cobblestone streets Helen is being watched. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter in the library, a strange confession and a curious warning that speaks of Melmoth the Witness, a dark legend found in obscure fairy tales and antique village lore.Īs such superstition has it, Melmoth travels through the ages, dooming those she persuades to join her to a damnation of timeless, itinerant solitude. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a home of sorts-or, at least, refuge. It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. For centuries, the mysterious dark-robed figure has roamed the globe, searching for those whose complicity and cowardice have fed into the rapids of history’s darkest waters-and now, in Sarah Perry’s breathtaking follow-up to The Essex Serpent, it is heading in our direction. ![]()
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