“The idea that I could have produced something that could be treated with so much care and so much expertise is just extraordinary, really extraordinary. The process was “extraordinarily” respectful. They showed me the scripts in advance, and I spoke to the wonderful director, Clio Barnard.” “I feel gratitude more than anything else. “I have all sorts of feelings, arriving one after the other - and sometimes quite contradictory,” she says. So, how does it feel - seven years after completing the manuscript, and six years after it was optioned - to see her work realised on the small screen with such a stellar cast? This is a novel that has an entire chapter in which there’s a discussion about the nature of sin, and that is unashamedly a novel of ideas.”
“Nobody - least of all me - had any idea that this would happen. Speaking to the Church Times in 2018 ( Features, 30 November 2018), Perry said that she was mystified by its success. Now, The Essex Serpent has been turned into a six-part mini-series by Apple TV+, starring Tom Hiddleston and Claire Danes. All this set against a foggy backdrop of the muddy Essex marshlands. It is a rich novel of ideas, exploring questions of faith and reason, scientific and medical advances, privilege and poverty, friendship and love. The book tells the story of the newly widowed Cora Seaborne as she sets off on a quest to find out more about a mysterious sea creature that is rumoured to be terrorising the Essex coast in the 19th century.
It has been widely lauded as a modern Gothic masterpiece ( Reading Groups, 7 July 2017). WHEN Sarah Perry’s second novel, The Essex Serpent, was published in 2016, it was a worldwide hit, selling more than 100,000 copies in hardback alone.
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