![]() ![]() ![]() It sits rather awkwardly but I assume it is there to provide one more motive for Naomi Banks to run away from home, but those motives are so dispersed through the book that I suspect readers may have forgotten them by the time Naomi reappears two hundred pages later. There is a minor sexual assault (p 178), but even then everyone appears to remain fully clothed. The Victorians they did generally keep their clothes on. ![]() Too much and even-handed lesbianism and male homosexuality but of a delicate kind to which evenĪ vicar would have to give his blessing. Handled without too much difficulty in the polite Creative Writing classĭiscussion or the Sunday School (or Guardian) book club. On the books cover, John Burnside compares The Essex Serpent to Dickens. Tight, the prose never slack, but her characters do tend to those which will be The Essex Serpent is a novel to relish: a work of great intelligence and charm. Perry’s historical novel – set in 1893 - is very well crafted and constructed, the scenes Re-invent them for ourselves and in our own image. Us so many narratives of themselves that we are spoilt for choice if we want to ![]()
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