Perry’s novel recasts women in the titular roles: Helen Franklin, a translator based in Prague, comes across a mysterious folder containing a sheaf of historic letters, all describing the same black-clad female figure. The novel takes its cue from Melmoth the Wanderer-an arcane horror story written by an Irish clergyman in 1820, in which a man, having traded his soul for a longer life, is doomed to spend it wandering the earth. Perry’s new novel, Melmoth, is another Gothic romp, but one more likely to perplex than enchant. Sarah Perry’s bestselling second novel The Essex Serpent was one of those books that plucked you from your seat in a couple of sentences and deposited you somewhere damp, Gothic and rather magical. Part of the front cover of Sarah Perry's Melmoth
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