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ENLIGHTENMENT - SARAH PERRY GEBUNDEN

"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 Review From 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 commitment to religion and their desire to explore the
world beyond their small Baptist community. It is two romantic relationships that will rend
their friendship  and in the wake of this rupture  Thomas develops an obsession with a vanished
nineteenth-century astronomer said to haunt a nearby manor  and Grace flees Aldleigh entirely
for London. Over the course of twenty years  by coincidence and design  Thomas and Grace will
find their lives brought back into orbit as the mystery of the vanished astronomer unfolds into
a devastating tale of love and scientific pursuit. Thomas and Grace will ask themselves what it
means to love and be loved  what is fixed and what is mutable  how much of our fate is
predestined and written in the stars  and whether they can find their way back to each other. A
thrillingly ambitious novel of friendship  faith  and unrequited love  rich in symmetry and
symbolism  Enlightenment is a shimmering wonder of a book and Sarah Perry's finest work to
date.

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