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Melmoth: Sunday Times Bestseller: The Sunday Times Bestseller from the author of The Essex Serpent

Melmoth: Sunday Times Bestseller: The Sunday Times Bestseller from the author of The Essex Serpent

by SarahPerry (Author), Sarah Perry (Author), Sarah Perry (Author)

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Melmoth: coming 2018.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 288
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 02 Oct 2018
ISBN 10: 1788160657
ISBN 13: 9781788160650
Book Overview: From the author of THE ESSEX SERPENT comes a dazzlingly inventive and deeply moving novel that speaks urgently to our times

Media Reviews
This is a beautiful, devastating, brilliant book. It affected me so much I was shaking after I read it. The exquisite, immersive writing compelled me to keep reading even through the horrors described. -- Marian Keyes
Astonishingly dark, rich storytelling, exquisitely balanced between gothic shocks and emotional truth. -- Francis Spufford
Richly atmospheric, daring and surprising, Melmoth seals Sarah Perry's place as chief architect of literature's gothic revival. -- Melissa Harrison
Striking in form and brave in the questions it asks of us all, moving and terribly beautiful, Melmoth left me troubled and haunted for weeks. -- Sam Guglani
Sarah Perry is a wonderful writer, the real thing. Her new novel Melmoth packs a punch of atmosphere, creepiness, fear and melancholy. I am going to move it off my bedside table because it is haunting my sleep. -- Susan Hill
Mythic, ominous and sensitively human, Melmoth is haunting in all the best ways... including the disquieting ones. -- Frances Hardinge
In rich, lyrical prose, Perry weaves history and myth, human frailty and compassion, into an affecting gothic morality tale for 2018. Like David Mitchell and Sarah Waters, Perry is changing what a modern-day ghost story can look like, challenging her readers to confront the realities of worldwide suffering from which fiction is so often an escape. A chilling novel about confronting our complicity in past atrocities-and retaining the strength and moral courage to strive for the future. * starred Kirkus review *
This is a sobering, disturbing, yet powerful and moving book that cannot fail to impress. * starred Booklist review *
Helen Franklin, a translator living in Prague, finds herself searching for the truth behind the dark, legendary figure Melmoth-while also being pursued by her. This gothic mystery novel from the author of The Essex Serpent is a treat. * Publishers Weekly Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2018 *
Praise for The Essex Serpent: 'One of the most memorable historical novels of the past decade' * Sunday Times *
An irresistible novel that taps the vein of Victorian Gothic and British myth' * Daily Telegraph *
An unforgettable achievement * starred Publishers Weekly review *
Praise for After Me Comes the Flood: 'Remarkable... will haunt the reader long after the final page.' * Guardian *
Praise for Sarah Perry: 'One of the finest fiction writers working in Britain today. -- John Burnside
Sarah Perry has the rare gift of committing the uncommittable to prose - that is to say: here is a writer who understands life. -- Jessie Burton
Perry is a wonderful descriptive writer with a remarkable talent for making the familiar strange ... She bleeds light into darkness and back again * The Times *
Perry's language is exquisite, her characterisation finely tuned... it's clear that Perry is a gifted writer of immense ability. * Irish Times *
A hugely talented author. -- Sarah Waters
Genius. -- Lucy Mangan
Perry writes fantastically * The Bookseller *
Perry has crafted an atmospheric, gothic tale with the requisite bumps and shocks, but one that also asks profound and powerful questions about morality, mercy and redemption -- Alice O'Keeffe
This fever dream of a novel will prove as compelling and all-consuming as The Essex Serpent * Starred Library Journal review *
Author Bio
Sarah Perry is the author of The Essex Serpent and After Me Comes the Flood. A number one bestseller and Waterstones Book of the Year 2016, The Essex Serpent was nominated for a further eight literary awards, including the Costa Novel Award 2017, and the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction 2017. After Me Comes the Flood was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2014 and the Folio Prize 2014, and won the East Anglian Book of the Year Award 2014. Sarah has been the UNESCO City of Literature Writer-In-Residence in Prague and a Gladstone's Library Writer-in-Residence. Her work is being translated into nineteen languages, and her essays and fiction have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and RTE 1. She reviews fiction for the Guardian and the Financial Times.