Cora married young, to a monstrous husband (“What a thing it would be: to have me break you, and mend your wounds with gold,” he tells her in a flashback, before setting out to break her), and after her husband’s death by throat cancer, she is a widow.
It’s into this atmosphere that Cora, Perry’s radiantly likable main character, makes her entrance. In one particularly horrifying scene, children talking about the serpent begin to laugh and cannot stop, snapping their necks back and forth in involuntary spasms as they go into hysterics. Citizens slip notes to the town rector, urging him to preach repentance so that Colchester can be forgiven its sins and freed from the serpent. One character skins moles and hangs them around his property to scare off the serpent. Vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark
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