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Enlightenment: A beautiful summer read about love, mystery and unlikely friendship from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author - Softcover

Perry, Sarah

 
9781529927788: Enlightenment: A beautiful summer read about love, mystery and unlikely friendship from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1529927781 ISBN 13: 9781529927788
Verlag: Vintage, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Unlikely best friends Thomas and Grace are bound together by questions of faith, love and astronomy in this dazzling summer read from the #1 bestselling author.


READERS HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH ENLIGHTENMENT:
‘Vibrates with wonder’
‘I absolutely loved it’
‘Full of magic’
‘Exquisite…strange and wonderful and unpredictable’
‘This book tore my heart apart then put it back together again’

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 religion and their desire to explore the world. But their friendship is ruptured by the arrival of love.

Over the course of twenty years, Thomas and Grace will find their lives brought back into orbit as a devastating story of passion and scientific adventure unfolds and Aldleigh’s unique mysteries are revealed.

‘It’s glorious… A beautiful, memorable novel’ OBSERVER

‘Sarah Perry just gets better and better’ INDEPENDENT

‘Absorbing… A romance worthy of Emily Brontë’ WALL STREET JOURNAL

‘Gorgeous…ethereal’ GUARDIAN

‘Sarah Perry creates worlds to disappear into… Beautiful, vivid’ BBC

*LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024*
*A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE GUARDIAN, DAILY TELEGRAPH AND DAILY MAIL*

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sarah Perry is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Enlightenment, Melmoth, The Essex Serpent and After Me Comes the Flood, and the non-fiction Death of an Ordinary Man and Essex Girls. She is a winner of the Waterstones Book of the Year Award and the British Book of the Year Award. Enlightenment was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024 and her other work has been nominated for major literary prizes including the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Folio Prize and the Costa Novel Award. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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A story of love and astronomy told over the course of twenty years through the lives of two improbable best friends.

Thomas and Grace are fellow worshippers at the 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.

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024.

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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1529927781
ISBN 13 
9781529927788
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
400
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