Little enough is given away to browsers…but the first comment there on the back cover might tempt you in. Serpent's Tail have got it right on this one. Too many publishers give away too much story. Regular readers of my reviews will know that a bugbear of mine is the blurb. Naturally, as a reviewer, I shouldn't say this, but every now and again, isn't it wonderful to read a book about which you have barely the faintest notion and absolutely no preconceptions? It is a risk, to be sure, but in this case it paid off. This is another way of saying that I had paid little enough thought about the nature of the book itself to be approaching it almost blind. That's a place of the kind of wide open skies and mud creeks that you will find up much of the Norfolk and Suffolk coast as well, and a landscape type that probably only appeals to a certain type of person. She is a local writer, and the book is set in a place not too far away, but that I have yet to explore and which fascinates me: the Blackwater estuary in Essex. I confess to a bias… when I came across a reference to Sarah Perry's latest novel I wanted to read it for two reasons only.
The Richard and Judy Book Club Summer 2017īritish Book Awards: Fiction Book of the Year 2017 Longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction 2017 Touches of Dickensian squalor, Austenian female feistiness, mythical beasts, languid ailing beauties and strong social campaigners, a strange child or two, all set against the strange beauty of the Essex landscape. Simon Heffer is a historian and journalist who first coined the term 'Essex Man'ĭan Taylor is a New Generation Thinker.Summary: A timeless story of love and friendship, set in the Blackwater estuary in the late 19th century. Tim Burrows has written The Invention of Essex: The Making of an English CountyĮlsa James is an artist whose work includes the Forgotten Black Essex project Matthew Sweet and his guests - all Essex residents - are here to present a more nuanced, complicated and historically rich vision of this woefully misunderstood part of England. Thanks in part to the birth of those enduring caricatures - Essex Man & Essex Girl - in the 1990s, this is a county that has struggled to break free from a whole raft of stereotypes and assumptions.
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