Sarah Perry

Sarah Perry, best-selling author of the Essex Serpent,  re-examines her relationship with her much maligned home county. She summons its most unquiet spirits, from Protestant martyr Rose Allin to the indomitable Abolitionist Anne Knight, sitting them alongside Audre Lorde, Kim Kardashian and Harriet Martineau, and shows us that the Essex girl is not bound by geography. She is a type, disreputable, disrespectful and disobedient – and unapologetic!