Ammer, Christine (2013). "Après moi le déluge". The Dictionary of Clichés: A Word Lover's Guide to 4,000 Overused Phrases and Almost-Pleasing Platitudes. Dictionary of Clichés. New York: Skyhorse Publishing. ISBN 978-16263-6011-2. He found out somehow - he might have counted for all I know - that in the Bible the words or something like it come three hundred and sixty five times.' She drained the rest of her tea with a gulp and said, 'Do you understand? To Elijah it meant only o e thing: thousands of years ago God had personally seen to it that there'd be enough comfort to go round for every day of the year. The novel is set in a remote country house hidden away in Thetford Forest (close indeed to where I lived as a child, albeit the forest is relocated rather nearer than it is in reality to the marshlands of the North Norfolk coast), during a stifling summer drought. Then his youngest daughter came in - they all wore long skirts you know, for the sake of modesty. She said: What about leap years? What about leap years!

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A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. Eadwacer from the Anglo-Saxon poem “Wulf and Eadwacer” becomes a significant motif. This poem is renowned for being difficult to interpret despite being only 19 lines long (or perhaps because it is only 19 lines long). I am not sure of the part that this poem plays in the story other than that it adds to the mysterious atmosphere and the sense that we are not being told everything. A difficult to interpret poem within a difficult to interpret book. But it may be that there is more to it than that - I’d be delighted if someone could elucidate in the comments! I’m probably not the first person to suddenly feel stupid for trying to make an anagram out of the word Eadwacer. Her second novel, The Essex Serpent, was also published by Serpent's Tail in 2016. Inspired by the myth of a sea serpent on the Essex coast, it tells the story of a Victorian widow, Cora Seaborne, and the friends who surround her after the death of her bullying husband. Cora is intrigued and compelled by the possibility of the serpent's return, but clashes with the local vicar, William Ransome, who is determined to lay superstition to rest in his rural parish. And she makes wonderfully effective use of the haunting and ambiguous ancient-English poem, Wulf and Eadwacer: the full poem (not included in the novel) reads in the translation by Michael R. Burch: To my people he's prey, a pariah.Catherine Blyth, After Me Comes the Flood by Sarah Perry, review: 'a dazzling new talent', The Telegraph, 15 July 2014. 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? Throughout, Perry uses two differing voices - the first person perspective of John, who is writing an account of his time in his house, and an omniscient third person narrative. John's voice drawns one in from the outset: 'I'm writing this in a stranger's room on a broken chair at an old school desk. The chair creaks if I move, and so I must keep very still'. He goes on to say, 'I wish I could use some other voice to write this story down. I wish I could take all the books that I've loved best and borrow better words than these, but I've got to make do with an empty notebook and a man who never had a tale to tell and doesn't know how to begin except for the beginning'.

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Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham (1898). "Del'uge". Dictionary of Phrase and Fable . Retrieved 17 October 2020– via Bartleby.com. The saying is frequently misattributed to Louis XV of France, the second-to-last ruler of France before the aristocracy-destroying French Revolution. Louis XV and his father, Louis XIV (the "Sun King"), were fond of great extravagance at court and fighting expensive wars which eventually bankrupted France, providing one of many catalysts for the French Revolution. Thus, "after me (Louis XV), the flood (the Revolution)." Louis XVI, his son, was executed at the guillotine. Though the slow pace will test readers' patience, the novel succeeds in building a strange world in the English woods. Perry's fans will want to take a look." - Publishers Weekly In June 2018 Perry was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in its "40 Under 40" initiative. [7] Novels [ edit ] After Me Comes the Flood [ edit ]

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Rowan Mantell, Norfolk author Sarah Perry tipped for stardom with debut novel After Me Comes The Flood, EDP24, 27 June 2014 It’s not that the plot and character development are especially weak. The plot isn’t the main thing as far I can tell. John Cole leaves his failing bookshop and heads for Norfolk to visit his brother. On the way, his car breaks down and he finds himself outside a house. The dreamlike nature of the narrative starts to assert itself at this early stage: