Enlightenment: From the author of the #1 Sunday Times bestseller The Essex Serpent

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Synopsis
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’ GUARDIANThomas 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
Copyright:
1958

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
400 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781529927795
Related ISBNs:
9781529928907, 9781787335004, 9781529927788, 9781787334991
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
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Copyrighted By:
The Estate of W. H. Auden. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Romance, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality
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Bookshare Staff
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