Enlightenment A Novel

Sarah Perry

eBook - 2024

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE"Like A.S. Byatt's Possession, Enlightenment is a baroque, genre-bending novel of ideas, ghosts and hidden histories. A richly layered epic....a heartfelt paean to the consolations of the sublime, where religion and science meet." — Telegraph"Read it, then read it again. This is a book full of unexpected wonders." — Literary ReviewFrom the author of The Essex Serpent, a dazzling novel of love and astronomy told over the course of twenty years through the lives of two improbable best friends.Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay have lived all their lives in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Though separated in age by three decades, the pair are kindred spirits—torn between their commitm...ent to religion and their desire to explore the world beyond their small Baptist community.It is two romantic relationships that will rend their... more