After Me Comes the Flood: From the author of The Essex Serpent

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BookishJohn Cole, aloof and alone in middle age, walks out of his life on the thirty-first day without rain. Making his way to the Norfolk coast, his car breaks down in the punishing heat. Abandoning it on an isolated road, he comes toa solitary house whose residents welcome him in. The second section, "be afraid of the lame..." I believe is about the different things that could kill him. Disease, Old age, the cold. An original and haunting book…a mix of elegant, alluring, but subtly sinister characters…a talented writer." - Daily Mail (UK) Après moi, le déluge" ( pronounced [apʁɛ mwa lə delyʒ]; lit. 'After me, the flood') is a French expression attributed to King Louis XV of France, or in the form " Après nous, le déluge" ( pronounced [apʁɛ nu lə delyʒ]; lit. 'After us, the flood') to Madame de Pompadour, his favourite. [1] It is generally regarded as a nihilistic expression of indifference to whatever happens after one is gone, [2] though it may also express a more literal forecasting of ruination. [3] Its meaning is translated by Brewer in the forms "When I am dead the deluge may come for aught I care", and "Ruin, if you like, when we are dead and gone." [4] Perry was born, the youngest of five sisters, in Chelmsford, Essex, into a family of devout Christians who were members of a Strict Baptist church. Growing up with almost no access to contemporary art, culture, and writing, she filled her time with classical music, classic novels and poetry, and church-related activities. She says this early immersion in old literature and the King James Bible profoundly influenced her writing style. [1] She attended Chelmsford County High School for Girls. She married her husband Robert Perry at the age of 20. She graduated from Anglia Polytechnic University (now Anglia Ruskin University) with a degree in English Literature then worked briefly in the Civil Service.

After Me Comes the Flood: From the author of The Essex After Me Comes the Flood: From the author of The Essex

Though the slow pace will test readers' patience, the novel succeeds in building a strange world in the English woods. Perry's fans will want to take a look." - Publishers Weekly In this eerie debut novel from Perry ( Melmoth, 2018, etc.), now published in the U.S. for the first time, a man becomes lost in the woods only to be welcomed by a household of strange but passionate residents. Mould, Michael (2011). The Routledge Dictionary of Cultural References in Modern French. Routledge. p.43. ISBN 978-0-203-83092-5. The saying is frequently misattributed to Louis XV of France, the second-to-last ruler of France before the aristocracy-destroying French Revolution. Louis XV and his father, Louis XIV (the "Sun King"), were fond of great extravagance at court and fighting expensive wars which eventually bankrupted France, providing one of many catalysts for the French Revolution. Thus, "after me (Louis XV), the flood (the Revolution)." Louis XVI, his son, was executed at the guillotine. Look. The English part is about being strong: "I can't give up, I have no right to surrender, because after me everything will get ruined and those who depend on me will suffer". Then another side breaks through - we can see emotions of protaginist expressed in Russian (which mainly noone understands). This part is full of pain, hopelessness and all-pervading sorrow. But people can't understand this. This is the way to show something hidden from others. Then again comes a burst of self persuadng mantras - I! Must! Go! On!

the russian words are a piece of a famouse russian poem by Boris Pasternak. Here is the traslation, but assure you, in Russian it sounds much more beatiful The Crown", IV (1925) in Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), p280.

After Me Comes The Flood, by Sarah Perry - book review After Me Comes The Flood, by Sarah Perry - book review

John Burnside, After Me Comes the Flood by Sarah Perry review – a remarkable debut, The Guardian, 26 June 2014.

Sarah Perry, Reading lessons of a religious upbringing without modern books, The Guardian, 1 July 2014. Kean, Danuta (8 March 2017). "Baileys women's prize 2017 longlist sees established names eclipse debuts". The Guardian . Retrieved 8 March 2017.