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After Me Comes the Flood

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After Me Comes the Flood

By: Sarah Perry
Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
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“A beautiful, dream-like, unsettling narrative in which every word, like a small jewel, feels carefully chosen, considered and placed. Rarely do debut novels come as assured and impressive as this one.” —Sarah Waters, New York Times bestselling author of The Paying Guests

Elegant, sinister and psychologically complex, After Me Comes the Flood is the haunting debut novel by the bestselling author of The Essex Serpent and Melmoth.

One hot summer’s day, John Cole decides to shut his bookshop early, and possibly forever, and drives out of London to see his brother. When his car breaks down on an isolated road, he goes looking for help and finds a dilapidated house. As he approaches, a laughing woman he’s never seen before walks out, addresses him by name and explains she’s been waiting for him. Entering the home, John discovers an enigmatic clan of residents all of whom seem to know who he is, and also claim they have been awaiting him arrival. They seem to be waiting for something else, too—something final…

Written before Sarah Perry’s ascension to an internationally bestselling author, After Me Comes the Flood is a spectacular novel of obsession, conviction and providence.

Literary Fiction Thriller & Suspense Psychological Fiction England Genre Fiction Gothic Scary Horror Natural Disaster

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I picked this up after watching the Essex Serpent show based on her novel of the same name. This felt very stagnant and a lack of character development. I kept waiting for the big reveal for the main character and the story in general and there never was one. The most dramatic things were side stories of the other characters. The best thing was the narrator, he probably kept my interest much longer than if I was reading it in my own and it still took me awhile to finish. I kept putting down.

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Perry packs so much into this deceptively ponderous tale about a man who mistakenly ends up living in a house populated by fellow refugees from the real world. Reality vs it’s shadow - the perceived, the written, reflected, filtered and translated experience. Highly recommend this book for those who love poetic writing and dipping into the liminal spaces of the human experience.

Haunting, cryptic, mythological, painterly

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