Helen Franklin is post-40-ish, an English exile who's had a pretty humdrum time for the 20 years or so she's been in the cosmopolitan city of Prague where she translates sparkling prose, like the ...

Here are two descriptions of the moon, from Sarah Perry’s new novel, “Melmoth”: “Overhead the low clouds split, and the upturned bowl of a silver moon pours milk out on the river.” And: “The moon ...

Sarah Perry's new novel, Melmoth, opens with an imperative: "Look!" The object of our gazes is Helen Franklin, 42, "small, insignificant, having about her an air ... of self-punishment, of self-hatred ...