Melmoth: The Sunday Times Bestseller from the author of The Essex Serpent - Softcover

Perry, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1788160673 ISBN 13: 9781788160674

Publisher: Serpent's Tail, 2019

Synopsis

'Hugely readable and profoundly important ... Perry's masterly piece of postmodern gothic is one of the great achievements of our century'
The Observer

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE

OBSERVER FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018

'Beautiful, devastating, brilliant'
Marian Keyes

'Astonishingly dark ... exquisitely balanced'
Francis Spufford

'Packs a punch of atmosphere, creepiness, fear and melancholy'
Susan Hill

'Mythic, ominous and sensitively human'
Frances Hardinge

'Richly atmospheric, daring and surprising'
Melissa Harrison

'Striking and brave, ... moving and terribly beautiful'
Sam Guglani

Oh my friend, won't you take my hand - I've been so lonely!

One winter night in Prague, Helen Franklin meets her friend Karel on the street.

Agitated and enthralled, he tells her he has come into possession of a mysterious old manuscript, filled with personal testimonies that take them from 17th-century England to wartime Czechoslovakia, the tropical streets of Manila, and 1920s Turkey. All of them tell of being followed by a tall, silent woman in black, bearing an unforgettable message.

Helen reads its contents with intrigue, but everything in her life is about to change.

About this title

Review:

Sarah Perry stands out as an exhilaratingly bold storyteller (Mail on Sunday)

Scary and smart, but also a philosophical inquiry into the nature of love and will. (Washington Post)

Rich, elegant and atmospheric (Irish Times)

A novel that manages that vanishingly rare feat - being at once hugely readable and profoundly important (Observer)

Mythic, ominous and sensitively human, Melmoth is haunting in all the best ways (Frances Hardinge)

This is a beautiful, devastating, brilliant book. It affected me so much I was shaking after I read it. The exquisite, immersive writing compelled me to keep reading even through the horrors described. (Marian Keyes)

Astonishingly dark, rich storytelling, exquisitely balanced between gothic shocks and emotional truth (Francis Spufford)

Sarah Perry is a wonderful writer, the real thing (Susan Hill)

Book Description:

THE NEW SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ESSEX SERPENT

About this edition

• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1788160673
• ISBN 13: 9781788160674
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288