![]() Meeting two married London acquaintances, Charles and Katherine Ambrose, Cora tells them of her theories. Cora believes that the beast could be an undiscovered kind of dinosaur that survived extinction. While on holiday in Colchester with her son, Francis, and her companion, Martha, Cora is intrigued by a ruin caused by an earthquake which was rumoured to have awakened the Essex Serpent, a mythical sea dragon. Set in the Victorian era, in the year 1893, it tells the tale of Cora Seaborne, a woman relishing her recent freedom from an abusive husband, who moves from London to a small village in Essex and becomes intrigued by the idea that it might be haunted by a mythological sea serpent.Īfter being widowed when her wealthy, abusive husband dies of throat cancer, Cora Seaborne decides to ignore the trappings of her London society life and take up amateur palaeontology. The book is the second novel by Perry and was released on in the United Kingdom through Serpent's Tail, an imprint of Profile Books. ![]() ![]() The Essex Serpent is a 2016 novel by British author Sarah Perry. ![]()
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