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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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