![]() ![]() He gave her a gold ring which was too small – a year later another, and it was smaller still.”Īs I read this passage in the eighteenth page, my lips broke into a smile and I was overcome with the happiness of discovering words that so beautifully convey the scene. Her speech grew languid to conceal its stumble she walked nowhere. ![]() “ On her nineteenth birthday, she exchanged birdsong for feathered fans, crickets in the long grass for a jacket dotted with beetle ’s wings she was bound by a whalebone, pierced with ivory, pinned by the hair with tortoiseshell. It was when I came across the passage below that I threw away my inhibitions and embraced it in its full beauty – I did not want to disappoint myself because of the hype that welcomed this book when it was released. I began reading The Essex Serpent with great caution even though I was spell bound by the stunning cover. ![]()
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