Essex Serpent

Costa Book Award Finalist and the Waterstones (UK) Book of the Year 2016"I loved this book. At once numinous, intimate and wise, The Essex Serpent is a marvelous novel about the workings of life, love and belief, about science and religion, secrets, mysteries, and the complicated and unexpected shifts of the human heartand it contains some of the most beautiful evocations of place and landscape Ive ever read. It is so good its pages seem lit from within. As soon as Id finished it I started read ...