{"id":3747,"date":"2017-11-13T19:23:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T13:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fableandi.com\/?p=3747"},"modified":"2020-04-04T15:06:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T09:36:53","slug":"essex-serpent-sarah-perry-delicious-prose-leaves-spellbound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/essex-serpent-sarah-perry-delicious-prose-leaves-spellbound\/","title":{"rendered":"The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry \u2013 Delicious prose that leaves you spellbound"},"content":{"rendered":"
I began reading The Essex Serpent<\/em> with great caution even though I was spell bound by the stunning cover. I did not want to disappoint myself because of the hype that welcomed this book when it was released. It was when I came across the passage below that I threw away my inhibitions and embraced it in its full beauty \u2013<\/p>\n \u201cOn her nineteenth birthday, she exchanged birdsong for feathered fans, crickets in the long grass for a jacket dotted with beetle<\/em>\u2019s wings; she was bound by a whalebone, pierced with ivory, pinned by the hair with tortoiseshell. Her speech grew languid to <\/em>conceal its stumble; she walked nowhere. He gave her a gold ring which was too small <\/em>\u2013 a year later another, and it was smaller still.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n As I read this passage in the eighteenth page, my lips broke into a smile and I was overcome with the happiness of discovering words that so beautifully convey the scene. I knew this would be a favourite read this year, for when an author describes the transition into adulthood and the loss of innocence in a way as this, you can be assured that she is someone capable of telling a good story without compromising on the quality of her narration. I loved the book, every page, from start to the end.<\/p>\n
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