From the internationally **bestselling author of The Essex
Serpent--soon to be an Apple TV+ Series
"A beautiful, dream-like, unsettling narrative in which every word,
like a small jewel, feels carefully chosen, considered and placed.
Rarely do debut novels come as assured and impressive as this
one."--Sarah Waters, New York Times bestselling author of The Paying
Guests
Elegant, sinister and psychologically complex, After Me Comes the
Flood is the haunting debut novel by Sarah Perry, the bestselling
author of The Essex Serpent and Melmoth.
One hot summer's day, John Cole decides to shut his bookshop early, and
possibly forever, and drives out of London to see his brother. When his
car breaks down on an isolated road, he goes looking for help and finds
a dilapidated house. As he approaches, a laughing woman he's never seen
before walks out, addresses him by name and explains she's been waiting
for him. Entering the home, John discovers an enigmatic clan of
residents all of whom seem to know who he is, and also claim they have
been awaiting his arrival. They seem to be waiting for something else,
too--something final....
Written before Sarah Perry's ascension to an internationally bestselling
author, After Me Comes the Flood is a spectacular novel of obsession,
conviction, and providence.
