Review by Julie
The Essex Serpent – Short-listed for the Costa Book Awards 2016
Love and a battle of beliefs in Victorian England
There’s something alluring about Victorian England as a setting for novels, a society full of contrasts and contradictions: extreme poverty and unfathomable wealth, a prim public life and a seedy underworld, modern factories and rural communities. Sarah Perry’s sensual love story with an intellectual twist, delivered in a style that transports you back to the time, sits perfectly within this world.