The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
Published 2017 · 422 pages · 116,050 words · about 7 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Essex Serpent to read?
The Essex Serpent scores 42 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
Prizes
- Women's Prize for Fiction 2017, longlist
- Costa Novel Award 2016, shortlist