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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