Melmoth Melmoth

Melmoth

The Sunday Times Bestseller from the author of The Essex Serpent

    • 3.9 • 44 Ratings
    • £3.99

Publisher Description

'Hugely readable and profoundly important ... Perry's masterly piece of postmodern gothic is one of the great achievements of our century'
The Observer


SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE

OBSERVER FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018

'Beautiful, devastating, brilliant'
Marian Keyes

'Astonishingly dark ... exquisitely balanced'
Francis Spufford

'Packs a punch of atmosphere, creepiness, fear and melancholy'
Susan Hill

'Mythic, ominous and sensitively human'
Frances Hardinge

'Richly atmospheric, daring and surprising'
Melissa Harrison

'Striking and brave, ... moving and terribly beautiful'
Sam Guglani
Oh my friend, won't you take my hand - I've been so lonely!

One winter night in Prague, Helen Franklin meets her friend Karel on the street.

Agitated and enthralled, he tells her he has come into possession of a mysterious old manuscript, filled with personal testimonies that take them from 17th-century England to wartime Czechoslovakia, the tropical streets of Manila, and 1920s Turkey. All of them tell of being followed by a tall, silent woman in black, bearing an unforgettable message.

Helen reads its contents with intrigue, but everything in her life is about to change.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2018
2 October
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
288
Pages
PUBLISHER
Profile
SIZE
957.9
KB
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