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Sarah Perry

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in Chelmsford, Essex, England, The United Kingdom

November 28, 1979

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Sarah Perry was born in Essex in 1979, and was raised as a Strict Baptist. Having studied English at Anglia Ruskin University she worked as a civil servant before studying for an MA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Creative Writing and the Gothic at Royal Holloway, University of London. In 2004 she won the Spectator's Shiva Naipaul Award for travel writing.

In January 2013 she was Writer-in-Residence at Gladstone's Library. Here she completed the final draft of her first novel, After Me Comes the Flood , which was published by Serpent's Tail in June 2014 to international critical acclaim. It won the East Anglian Book of the Year Award 2014, and was longlisted for the 2014 Guardian First Book Award and nominated for the 2014 Folio Prize. ...more

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I have just come back from Audley End House in my native Essex, having been there for a yet-to-be-revealed, but ghostly, Thing....

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Average rating: 3.47 · 96,213 ratings · 13,113 reviews · 27 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Essex Serpent 3.52 avg rating — 68,531 ratings — published 2016 — 86 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Melmoth by Sarah Perry, Jan Cramer (Narrator) 3.42 avg rating — 15,438 ratings — published 2018 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Enlightenment 3.57 avg rating — 5,064 ratings — published 2024 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After Me Comes the Flood 2.78 avg rating — 4,509 ratings — published 2014 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere 3.48 avg rating — 840 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death of an Ordinary Man 4.50 avg rating — 139 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Quaint and Curious Volume: Tales and Poems of the Gothic really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	XXL-Leseprobe: Die Schlange von Essex 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ten Spurs Vol. 5: The Best of the Best from the Literary Nonfiction of the Mayborn Conference 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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All the Living by C.E. Morgan

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Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon

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His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet

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This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell

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