Here she completed the final draft of her first novel, After Me Comes the Flood, which was published by Serpent's Tail in June 2014 to international critical acclaim. In January 2013 she was Writer-in-Residence at Gladstone's Library. In 2004 she won the Spectator's Shiva Naipaul Award for travel writing. Having studied English at Anglia Ruskin University she worked as a civil servant before studying for an MA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Creative Writing and the Gothic at Royal Holloway, University of London.
It even became a bit of trend at the time for people to try and emulate those with consumption so that they too could be beautiful.Sarah Perry was born in Essex in 1979, and was raised as a Strict Baptist.
We discussed the symptoms of consumption and how it made people feel to happy and euphoric, plus it made people look ethereally beautiful but really it was killing them slowly. Every little action seemed to have such massive consequences that were sometimes hard to follow. Everything seemed to hang together with thin little threads such as the fact that Edward was stabbed, and then what that lead on to. They were all interesting but together they were just too much. There were also a lot of different storylines to follow such as the little ginger girl, the medical elements, the social housing problems, the witch craft etc. Some members of the book club didn't get on well with the magical realism elements such as the book masquerading as a monster etc. We felt that the descriptions of people seemed to stick but the things they did and said just slipped out of our minds. We found that the writing style felt very Victorian with it being very whimsical, but it was hard to keep track of what you'd read in this style. Only half the book club finished this book, many found it too long, dry, and generally slow as a book.
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