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

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People make their own decisions without considering the impact of those decisions on others. For example, they decide to leave suddenly and do not ask themselves, even for a moment, if this departure affects if it is good to transition smoother for all parties. They resign from one day to the next; they break up suddenly and leave behind a partner, children, a team, colleagues. Everything for those people to go the other way, with a feeling of freedom.

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Rowan Mantell, Norfolk author Sarah Perry tipped for stardom with debut novel After Me Comes The Flood, EDP24, 27 June 2014 The Essex Serpent was nominated in the Novel category for the 2016 Costa Book Awards [11] and was named Waterstones Book of the Year 2016. [12] It was placed on the long list for the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. [13] It was adapted for a limited series on Apple TV+ in 2022. Laguna, Gabriel (13 January 2006). The Expression 'Après moi le déluge', and Its Classical Antecedents. ISBN 30-48-327-363. {{ cite book}}: |work= ignored ( help) CS1 maint: date and year ( link) [ self-published source] Mould, Michael (2011). The Routledge Dictionary of Cultural References in Modern French. Routledge. p.43. ISBN 978-0-203-83092-5.

Perry has a PhD in creative writing from Royal Holloway University where her supervisor was Sir Andrew Motion. Her doctoral thesis was on the Gothic in the writing of Iris Murdoch, and Perry has subsequently published an article on the Gothic in Aeon magazine. [2] [3]

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Catherine Blyth, After Me Comes the Flood by Sarah Perry, review: 'a dazzling new talent', The Telegraph, 15 July 2014. 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 A dark, marvelous novel…pour yourself a cool drink and bask in a dazzling new writing talent." - Daily Telegraph (UK) John Burnside, After Me Comes the Flood by Sarah Perry review – a remarkable debut, The Guardian, 26 June 2014. Apres moi, le deluge” (After me comes the flood) is an expression that was attributed sometimes to Louis XV, and other times to the Marquise de Pompadour. The expression was told after a lost battle against the Austrians and signifies contempt for the consequences of an action. Thus, the person who acted, because of the privileged situation, will not suffer the consequences of their actions or these actions will take effect after their death.A phrase of similar meaning is attributed to the Arabic poet Abu Firas al-Hamdani who died in 968 AD. the phrase in the original text is "إذا مِتُّ ظمآنًا فلا نزلَ القطرُ". It roughly translates to: "If I died thirsty, it wouldn't matter for me if it rains ever again". [10] Usage [ edit ] But there's more to this curious community hidden in the Thetford pines than meets the eye: his hosts all know him by name. They've prepared a room for him, and claim to have been waiting for him all along… Her second novel, The Essex Serpent, was also published by Serpent's Tail in 2016. Inspired by the myth of a sea serpent on the Essex coast, it tells the story of a Victorian widow, Cora Seaborne, and the friends who surround her after the death of her bullying husband. Cora is intrigued and compelled by the possibility of the serpent's return, but clashes with the local vicar, William Ransome, who is determined to lay superstition to rest in his rural parish.

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Russian-American singer and songwriter Regina Spektor included " Après moi, le déluge" in the chorus of her song "Après Moi" from her album Begin to Hope. The song was later covered by Peter Gabriel. Sian Cain, Costa book award 2016 shortlists dominated by female writers, The Guardian, 22 November 2016.A little unexpected', 2004 Shiva Naipaul prize article, The Spectator (The end of the article seems to be missing.)". Stephen from Beloit, WiThe full phrase, "Apres moi le deluge," is translated (by Regina in the song) as "after me comes the flood." The history of this phrase is a bit muddled, but it usually means "I won't worry about the consequences, because after me, everything will be destroyed." Mostly-irrelevant history to follow: Sarah Perry, Reading lessons of a religious upbringing without modern books, The Guardian, 1 July 2014. 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.

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An original and haunting book…a mix of elegant, alluring, but subtly sinister characters…a talented writer." - Daily Mail (UK) I have areally stong idea that this song is about a soldier. He's saying that he is fighting only to live because he knows he is no longer fighting for himself. He is fighting for those who own him. "You can't break that which isn't yours" The phrase itself is in reference to the biblical flood [5] and is believed to date from after the 1757 Battle of Rossbach, which was disastrous for the French. [6] One account says that Louis XV's downcast expression while he was posing for the artist Maurice Quentin de La Tour inspired Madame de Pompadour to say: "Il ne faut point s'affliger; vous tomberiez malade. Après nous, le déluge." [7] [note 1] Another account states that the Madame used the expression to laugh off ministerial objections to her extravagances. [4] The phrase is also often seen as foretelling the French Revolution and the corresponding ruin brought to France. [8] Lawrence also uses the phrase in "Whitman" (1923), calling it "the soul's last shout and shriek, on the confines of death", Studies in Classic American Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), p155. 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 Latter-Day sinners" from Pansies (1928) in Poems, Volume 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), p461. 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. This was written from the perspective of a statue. I think it's about King Louis XV. He was the one who famously said "Apres moi le deluge" which means "after me come the floods." He was hated by the French people and his reign seeded the resentment towards the monarchy that eventually led to the French Revolution.