Perry, Sarah - After Me Comes The Flood

Elegant, sinister and psychologically complex, After Me Comes the Flood is the haunting debut novel by the bestselling author of The Essex Serpent and Melmoth.

One hot summer 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 isolate 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.  Once he enters the home, John discovers an enigmatic clan of residents, all of whom seem to know who he is and claim they have been awaiting his arrival.  They seem to be waiting for something else too - something final....

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