![]() ![]() When a young man is mysteriously killed on New Year's Eve, the community's dread transforms to terror. Once there, they hear rumors that after nearly three hundred years, the mythical Essex Serpent, a fearsome creature that once roamed the marshes, has returned. ![]() Seeking refuge in fresh air and open space, she leaves the metropolis for coastal Essex, accompanied by her inquisitive and obsessive eleven-year-old son, Francis, and the boy's nanny, Martha, her fiercely protective friend. ![]() When Cora Seaborne's brilliant, domineering husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was an unhappy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. I found it so transporting that 48 hours after completing it, I was still resentful to be back home." -New York Times London, 1893. NOW AN APPLE TV+ SERIES A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction * Winner of the British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year and overall Book of the Year *A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of The Year * Waterstones Book of the Year * Costa Book Award Finalist "A novel of almost insolent ambition-lush and fantastical, a wild Eden behind a garden 's part ghost story and part natural history lesson, part romance and part feminist parable. ![]()
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