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ENLIGHTENMENT

SARAH PERRY

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Publisher:
VINTAGE
Subject:
Contemporary fiction
ISBN:
978-1-5299-2778-8
Pages:
400
12,50 €
IVA included
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**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024**
Immerse yourself in a story of love and astronomy across two centuries - from the #1 bestselling author of The Essex Serpent.

'Gorgeous...ethereal' GUARDIAN
'Truth, beauty and love...extraordinary' OBSERVER
'A book with cosmic reach' FINANCIAL TIMES
'You'll get lost in the pages' ELLE

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.

'The heavens, comets, faith, ghosts, love... This is a book of deep pleasures'
BOOKER JUDGES, 2024

'Sarah Perry just gets better and better'
INDEPENDENT

'A romance worthy of Emily Brontë'
WALL STREET JOURNAL

'One of contemporary fiction's brightest stars'
GLAMOUR

*A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE GUARDIAN, DAILY TELEGRAPH AND DAILY MAIL*

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