The Essex Serpent : The number one bestseller and British Book Awards Book of the Year Harvey Awards for Best Children or Young Adult Book AND nominated for Book of the Year (2018) one of the most acclaimed

one of the most acclaimed queer female writer of our times

who from a tiny noodle shop in New York’s Chinatown managed a multi-million dollar business smuggling people

Sherwood begins each chapter by showing how the system covered in that chapter supports homeostasis

by the author of Genghis Khan and Attila

I'd never read a novel that described loneliness and desire with such burning eloquence' Douglas Field

The Essex Serpent : The number one bestseller and British Book Awards Book of the Year Harvey Awards for Best Children or Young Adult Book AND nominated for Book of the Year (2018) one of the most acclaimedSTRANGE NEWS OUT OF ESSEX London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis a curious, obsessive boy she leaves town for Essex, where she hopes fresh air and open space will provide the refuge they need. When they take lodgings in Colchester, rumours reach them from further