After me comes the Flood

Resumen del libro

One hot summer's day, John Cole decides to leave his life behind. He shuts up the bookshop no one ever comes to and drives out of London. When his car breaks down and he becomes lost on an isolated road, he goes looking for help, and stumbles into the grounds of a grand but dilapidated house.

Its residents welcome him with open arms - but there's more to this strange community than meets the eye. They all know him by name, they've prepared a room for him, and claim to have been waiting for him all along. As nights and days pass John finds himself drawn into a baffling menagerie.

There is Hester, their matriarchal, controlling host; Alex and Claire, siblings full of child-like wonder and delusions; the mercurial Eve; Elijah - a faithless former preacher haunted by the Bible; and chain-smoking Walker, wreathed in smoke and hostility. Who are these people? And what do they intend for John?

Biografía del autor

Sarah Perry (Essex, 1979) es doctora en Escritura Creativa por la Royal Holloway de la Universidad de Londres, y ha sido escritora residente de la Gladstonex{0026} x02019;s Library y de la Ciudad de la Literatura en Praga. Su primera novela, x{0026}lt;em After me comes the flood x{0026}lt;/em (2014), recibió numerosos premios, pero ha sido x{0026}lt;em La serpiente de Essexx{0026}lt;/em , ganadora del British Book Award 2016 y que se traducirá a más de quince idiomas, la que la ha situado como una de las jóvenes autoras británicas más destacadas de la actualidad.