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Sarah Perry was born in Essex in 1979. She has been the writer in residence at Gladstone's Library and the UNESCO World City of Literature Writer in Residence in Prague. Her debut novel, After Me Comes the Flood, won the East Anglian Book of the Year Award, and was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2014 and the Folio Prize 2015. Her second novel, The Essex Serpent, was a UK #1 bestseller that won the Waterstones Book of the Year Award, the British Book Awards Book of the Year Prize, and was shortlisted for many other prizes including the Costa Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize. Melmoth is her third novel, was published in October 2018, Sunday Times Bestseller, an Observer Best Fiction Book Of The Year and longlisted for The 2019 Dylan Thomas Prize. She lives in Norwich.

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