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ENLIGHTENMENT - SARAH PERRY KARTONIERT (TB)

A story of love and astronomy told over the course of twenty years through the lives of two
improbable best friends. 'Glorious' OBSERVER 'Extraordinary' SARAH HALL 'Resplendent' i news
'Richly layered' TELEGRAPH 'Full of unexpected wonders' LITERARY REVIEW 'Beautifully nuanced'
SUSAN STOKES-CHAPMAN 'Gorgeous' GUARDIAN Thomas Hart and Grace Macauley are fellow worshippers
at the Bethesda Baptist chapel 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 for more. But their friendship is threatened by the arrival of love. Thomas falls
for James Bower  who runs the local museum. Together they develop an obsession with the
vanished nineteenth-century female astronomer Maria Veduva  said to haunt a nearby manor.
Inspired by Maria  and the dawning realisation James may not reciprocate his feelings  Thomas
finds solace studying the night skies. Could astronomy offer as much wonder as divine or
earthly love? Meanwhile Grace meets Nathan  a fellow sixth former who represents a different 
wilder kind of life. They are drawn passionately together  but quickly pulled apart  casting
Grace into the wider world and far away from Thomas. In time  the mysteries of Aldleigh are
revealed  bringing Thomas and Grace back to each other and to a richer understanding of love 
of the nature of the world  and the sheer miracle of being alive. 'Like Eleanor Catton's The
Luminaries and AS Byatt's Possession  [Enlightenment] is a baroque  genre-bending novel of
ideas  ghosts  and hidden histories.' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

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