The only things Cora did in London were walking and reading books.
The man was one of her husband’s colleagues and the couple is now visiting friends.Ĭolchester is surrounded by miles of mud and marsh. In Colchester, Cora encounters Charles and Katherine Ambrose. The Essex Serpent looks like a dragon with wings and Cora finds the beggar’s tale really interesting. This book is set eight years after that, in 1892. After that, the monster vanished for two-hundred years and appeared again only after the Colchester earthquake of 1884. A beggar tells Cora the story of the Essex Serpent which dates back to 1669. Francis’s teachers are relieved by the boy’s absence at school. He looks autistic.Ī month after her husband’s death, Cora moves to the small town of Colchester to find fossils. He also knows how many steps there are between his room and his mother’s. He collects strange things and has strange thoughts like hoping that a wad of fur might still contain a flea or a thick with blood inside. Her mother had died long before.įrancis is eleven years old. Cora had met Michael Seaborne through her father, when she was seventeen. Mary found and sold several of them, but prematurely died of breast cancer. Mary’s father was a carpenter who taught her how to find fossils. She admires the palaeontologist Mary Anning (1799-1847). Mr Seaborne was a violent man and Cora has a scar on her collarbone because her husband had once pressed a candlestick into her flesh.Ĭora is a wealthy woman interested in fossils. The black-haired Francis is their son and Martha is his nanny. Cora is a tall woman with grey eyes who didn’t love her husband. Michael Seaborne was a member of the House of Commons and refused the surgery because he wanted to die without scars. Michael Seaborne has died of throat cancer and the doctor is now interested in his patient’s widow, whose name is Cora. London, January: Dr Luke Garrett is a thirty-two-year-old surgeon, no higher than the shoulders of most men. A wonderful description of the turning tide at night.
He thinks to see a giant creature with scales, but then the moon appears again and he decides to take off his shirt to have a quick dip. The tide is turning and the marsh becomes suddenly muddy.
His body is full of beer and when a cloud hides the moon he feels lost in the darkness. New Year’s Eve: a man walks along the banks near the estuary of the River Blackwater. The Essex Serpent was inspired by the myth of a sea-serpent on the Essex coast. This British author was born in Essex in 1979, grew up in a strict Baptist family and has a PhD in creative writing. The Essex Serpent (2016) is the second book written by Sarah Perry.
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