Sarah Perry

Enlightenment (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529927795
• Artikelnr.: 68402938

Autorenporträt

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 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.

Rezensionen

Gauzy and unhurried, a genteel novel of inner space. It's luxuriously - defiantly - old-fashioned... Perry has always produced gorgeous prose, and she has found a new, ethereal register in this book Guardian