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    "title": "The Essex Serpent",
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    "annotation": "The second novel from the critically acclaimed author of }After Me Comes The Flood{. Set in Victorian London and an Essex village in the 1890s, this is the story of two people who fall for each other, but not in the usual way. With rumours spreading that the mythical Essex Serpent may in fact be real, widower Cora and vicar Will react in different ways. They agree on nothing, but find themselves drawn together",
    "description": "<p>London 1893: When Cora Seaborne and her son Francis reach Essex, rumours spread from further up the estuary that the mythical Essex Serpent, once said to roam the marshes claiming lives, has returned to the coastal parish of Aldwinter. Cora, a keen amateur naturalist is enthralled, convinced that it may be a previously undiscovered species. As she sets out on its trail she meets William Ransome, Aldwinter's vicar. They find themselves inexorably drawn together and torn apart, eventually changing each other's lives in ways entirely unexpected.&nbsp;</p>",
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