Tag: The Essex Serpent
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The Essex Serpent, by Sarah Perry
Hardback, Serpent’s Tail, £14.99, out now Victorian religion, science and superstition battle it out over a possible giant sea serpent off Essex. Cora, whose abusive husband has just died, sets out with her unusual young son Francis and working class activist friend Martha to investigate. Finally able to explore her own interests, this amateur naturalist…