Sarah Perry is the author of the novels After Me Comes the Flood and The Essex Serpent. Her latest, Melmoth, is out in paperback next month.
Sarah Perry was raised a Strict Baptist, with a number of exotic beliefs – in the literal existence of the devil, the creation of the earth in six days, the sinfulness of women wearing...
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