02607cam a2200457 i 4500 1336249845 TxAuBib 20240624120000.0 240520s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780063352612 hardcover $28.00 0063352613 hardcover $28.00 (OCoLC)1434260567 TxAuBib rda Perry, Sarah, 1979-, author. Enlightenment [Book] : a novel / Sarah Perry. First U.S. edition. New York : Mariner Books, [2024] ©2024. 376 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2024 by Jonathan Cape, and imprint of Penguin Random House UK. "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 commitment to religion and their desire to explore the world beyond their small Baptist community. It is two romantic relationships that will rend their friendship, and in the wake of this rupture, Thomas develops an obsession with a vanished nineteenth-century astronomer said to haunt a nearby manor, and Grace flees Aldleigh entirely for London. Over the course of twenty years, by coincidence and design, Thomas and Grace will find their lives brought back into orbit as the mystery of the vanished astronomer unfolds into a devastating tale of love and scientific pursuit. Thomas and Grace will ask themselves what it means to love and be loved, what is fixed and what is mutable, how much of our fate is predestined and written in the stars, and whether they can find their way back to each other"-- Provided by publisher. 20240624. Friendship Fiction. Astronomers Fiction. Journalists Fiction. Museum curators Fiction. Gay men Fiction. Manors Fiction. Religious life Fiction. Small cities Fiction. England Social life and customs 19th century Fiction. England Social life and customs 20th century Fiction. London (England) Fiction. Essex (England) Fiction. Historical fiction. Psychological fiction. RV8