![]() Those wings belong to the titular Essex Serpent, a water serpent terrorizing the village - or according to William Ransome, just rumor a born of the dead man who washed up on shore, the missing sheep, a lost child, the unseasonable darkness, and a strange waver in the line of the water. Near the coastal village of Aldwinter, where Cora eventually moves to be closer to the Ransomes, nature is not inertly beautiful, but dangerous and alive: A sheep is sucked into the mud, boats are taken by the water, earthquakes split houses, and the residents wake in the mornings "from dreams of wet black wings." Perry is good at catching the special collective dread that enflames communities - the fear that something sinister is stirring, waiting just out of sight. ![]()
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