Sarah Perry’s “The Essex Serpent” is a novel of almost insolent ambition — lush and fantastical, a wild Eden behind a garden gate. Set in the Victorian era, it’s part ghost story and ...

The landscape is a wild and unruly one ... It is possible, indeed, that one of The Essex Serpent‘s faults is an overabundance of riches. The series has a lot on its mind, and it’s not always ...

There’s a lot going on inside “The Essex Serpent,” not all of it successful ... floating above the otherworldly landscape, turn it into a living thing as monstrous as the creature thought ...

as the Serpent’s mythical force takes over the village—a symbol of a changing world. “[Perry] integrates the wildness of this ancient landscape, the marshlands on the Essex coast ...

“He wonders,” Perry writes, “if the Essex Serpent has his name written down in a ledger.” Lust, like the fear of an unknowable natural landscape and all other irrational urges, is a tabo ...

Warning: contains spoilers for The Essex Serpent TV adaptation and novel ... we see Will pick a blue love-in-a-mist flower from the rectory garden and bring it up to Stella in her bed.

A London widow moves to Essex to investigate reports of a mythical serpent. She forms a surprising bond with the local vicar but when tragedy strikes, the villagers start to accuse her of bringing the ...

The bestselling author of The Essex Serpent has been announced as the ... “I am very proud to be an Essex girl: the history, landscape and spirit of Essex are all lodged in my heart and at ...