Sarah Perry scored a huge commercial success with her second novel, The Essex Serpent, set in a richly imagined Victorian era. Her third novel swerves unequivocally towards the supernatural, taking inspiration and form from Charles Maturin’s rambling Gothic novel Melmoth the Wanderer.
17 October 2018, The Tablet
Sarah Perry's new novel is sinister but stylish
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