![]() 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. In Melmoth, Sarah Perry’s breathtaking follow-up to The Essex Serpent, a mysterious dark-robed figure has roamed the globe for centuries, searching for those whose complicity and cowardice have fed into the rapids of history’s darkest waters-and now, it is heading in our direction. ![]() Perry did as much in her richly praised novel The Essex Serpent, but this is a deeper, more complex novel and more rewarding.”- The Washington Post ![]() “Masterful.scary and smart, working as a horror story but also a philosophical inquiry into the nature of will and love. From the internationally bestselling author of The Essex Serpent-soon to be an Apple TV+ Series ![]()
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